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Part Two: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA

Behind the Bastards

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The Thompson Sub Machined Gun

The thompson is a lot deadlier than guns that had been available before. So there's a whole kind of america's first panic over a gun, right? As is what happens with the tommy gun in the thirties. They're also freaking out about sawd off shotguns, which is actually pretty dum. All these things are still legal if you have the money,. In the caseo like a silencer ora, it takes like a 200 dollar tax stamp in a couple of months. It's technically like a similar legal process to get a machine gun but machine guns cost ten thousand dollars.

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