The first weapon banners......

I now have the appropriate name for Gun-Banners. And it goes WAY back! However, it has been used as a disparaging term for a number of years. The first recorded instance of one people banning another people's right to be armed, is the....

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Philistines!

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This is outlined in the Book of 1st Samuel in the Bible;

1Sa 13:19
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:
1Sa 13:20
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

1Sa 13:21
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

1Sa 13:22
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

1Sa 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

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So this is now the Official GunShowOnTheNet term for people such as;

Jim Brady

Sarah Brady

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Susan Collins

Kent Conrad

Jon Corzine

Thomas Daschle

Mark Dayton

Mike DeWine

Christopher Dodd

Byron Dorgan

Richard Durbin

John Edwards

Diane Feinstein

Peter Fitzgerald

Al Gore

Bob Graham

Judd Gregg

Tom Harkin

Ernest Hollings

Daniel Inouye

James Jeffords

Edward Kennedy

John Kerry

Herbert Kohl

Kate Krisik

Frank Lautenberg

Patrick Leahy

Joseph Leiberman

Carl Levin

Blanche Lincoln

Richard Lugar

Barbara Milkulski

Patty Murray

Bill Nelson

Mark Pryor

Jack Redd

John Rockefeller

Paul Sarbanes

Charles Schumer

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gordon Smith

Olympia Snowe

Debbie Stabenow

George Voinovich

John Warner

Ron Wyden

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All people listed above, in addition to being TRAITORS to your fellow countrymen, can now be called by your REAL name;

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Philistines!