Guns: How Things Have Changed


	Guns: How Things Have Changed

blueridge

4-25-2009 6:59 AM

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gun rights, gun ownership, gun laws

blueridge says:

looking back you realize just how much. Now it is surrounded with suspicion and controversy, and a whole lot of new laws.

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