Girls with guns: The Drexel Institute Girls Rifle Team

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Ed.

This is a photograph of The Drexel Institute Girls' Rifle Team, circa 1925. Drexel, in Philly, later became (and still us) Drexel University.  

My high school, Kent-Meridian, had a Rod & Gun Club, but we were (back then) a farm town. How about your school?

I wonder if they still have these clubs? I remember people bringing rifles to school, and--I think I remember--their teacher locking them up until they were going out. I don't know where they went to shoot ( I don't remember any [fishing] rods, just guns).

Maybe they went out to the gravel pits, the powerlines, or Ravensdale, Buckley, Hobart, or Cumberland. Those were pretty normal places to go shoot, drink beer, just escape from adults, or smoke pot.

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A monkey shoots an AK-47

By Jack Brummet, Primate Ed.

Context unknown - I don't know where this actually came from, or whether it is staged, or cooked up (which seems likely). . .

Eleanor Roosevelt and her gun

By Mona Goldwater, Women in politics ed.

Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to drive her own car and wanted a pistol for protection.  She refused to  travel with Secret Service agents, police escorts, or a chauffeur.

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Signs: Double Trouble (Guns + ____________)

Signs sent in by All This Is That readers:

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The Zombie Apocalypse drives gun sales...

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Editor

Is fear driving the sales of guns?  People reacting to the Batman massacre, or other mass shootings?  As it turns out, folks are just preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse.

 

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Spotting a concealed weapon: how to tell if someone is packing a heater

Thanks to Jeff Clinton for sending along another great tidbit. This fascinating page from an NYC police training document. A couple years ago, a Seattle cop told me that he thought the majority of those leather fanny/front packs you see contain a heater of some sort.


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Braap Bra-a-a-a-ap brap brap--Mattel sells machine guns

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Oh Sister! Photograph: Nuns with guns

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