Guns For Sale in American History

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Guns for Sale: An American Tradition

To fully understand America’s current abilty to purchase guns for sale, one must go back to our country’s beginnings. 

In Europe, where most early immigrants hailed from, guns were almost exclusively in the hands of the military, the elite and the wealthy. The majority of land was primarily owned by royalty and nobility. The common man rarely owned land and paid taxes in money made, goods produced or foods grown. Under many royal rulers, taxes often left the common man and his family with insufficient means for survival, much less the ability to prosper. Hunting was forbidden, allowed only for the elite.

Another European factor that greatly influenced the developing American identity was inheritance among the nobility. The custom was for the eldest son to inherit any titles and lands and other assets. If he died, the next oldest son inherited and so on.

Among these nobles’ younger sons who had nothing to lose and everything to gain they immigrated in large numbers to the wilderness that would eventually become the independent nation of the U.S.

America was truly a land of promise with vast lands and resources that afforded the opportunity of individual wealth. The promise of land they could call their own inspired Europeans who struggled in a Europe of dwindling resources and overcrowded conditions to immigrant to the New World.

Not even the settlers who lived in towns could count upon safety from angry Natives and gangs of thieves. Guns were used to hunt for food, valuable furs as well as a means of protection from dangerous wild animals, robbers, Natives and foreign armies.

The militia was born in this setting in a land where a domestic army lacked funding. It was the required responsibility of the citizen militia to protect his community and country. He provided his own guns, ammunition and often his supplies. The advent of newer techniques in firearms manufacturing resulted in cheaper and more plentiful guns for sale in Colonial America. The environment of an American wilderness and the possession of guns created the independent and self-sufficient American of the time and to a great extent the citizen we know today. In time, the citizens began to resent European taxations and demands for more. The American attitude of independence constituted a threat to European authority and abuses against settlers grew by European armies and some governors. In the wars between European nations over the new world, the citizen constituted the soldiers who fought them.

With the Revolution the United States of America was born and the 2nd Amendment was incorporated into the Constitution. The citizen militia had provided the army that won independence from European monarchies, and the need for the citizen to maintain freedom was recognized. The founders were educated and wise enough to recognize history’s lesson that all governments eventually devolve into tyranny. It is for this reason that the 2nd Amendment provides the citizens of this country the right to ‘keep and bear arms’, whether they are a member of a militia or not. They recognized, and even foresaw that the probability that the day would come when the citizen would again have to take up his own private arms, form a citizen militia, and take his country back from a tyrannical United States government.

Thus was born the history of guns in America. Guns continue to figure predominately in American society. Hunting remains popular and there are areas where wild game constitutes the majority of a family’s meat. Marksmanship continues as a sport with American competitors ‘bringing the gold home’ in the Olympics. Those sections of the country known for the largest number of guns and excellent marksmen continue to be among the favorite recruits of the U.S. military.

Today, more than ever people are seeking to protect themselves, and their families with a firearm.

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