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To: 2ndDivisionVet

On the frontier of the late 1700s, it was common to take your “gun” to church, “...with each man setting them in a corner till after meeting.”


20 posted on 02/04/2008 7:09:28 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Men carried shotguns when they went to church here in the old days when wagons were the common means of family transportation.


29 posted on 02/05/2008 6:29:52 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: Inyo-Mono

Also common to be ‘required’ to bring it or be fined for not being a guardian of the congregation...


30 posted on 02/05/2008 7:21:54 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (A few Rams must look after the sheep 'til the Good Shepherd returns...LFOD...)
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