Recoil

M-LOK FLINTLOCK!

In a world of Federal tax stamps, excessive paperwork, and menacingly long waiting periods, it often seems like the system is stacked to make gun owners feel like they’re innocent until proven guilty. The hoops that must be navigated to simply exercise a birthright, as cemented by the Bill of Rights, is astonishing … although that’s a libertarian conversation best left off the holiday dinner table.

But is it worth it? Of course it is — it’s worth doing over and over again. After all, the Second Amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms … plural. As in, lots.

Even still, there’s something deeply American and amazingly refreshing to meet the UPS guy at your own front door, look him in the eye, and shake his right hand as he legally delivers a gun with the left.

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