...The depots are crowded with cases of firearms, ordered from the North. The stores can not supply the demand for arms and ammunition, and every gunsmith in the city and blacksmith in the country is repairing dilapidated weapons. No one is seen on the streets without a repeater or rifle; and not a day passes in town or city but that the quick and scattering reports of guns and pistols, used on targets in the vicinity, would lead a stranger to suppose that a skirmish, if not a battle, was in progress around him....
...The Constitution of the United States expressly declares that the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed....
- Gallipolis Journal, Gallipolis, Ohio, Thursday, October 26, 1876. Volume XLI. Number 50. Pg. 2
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