LETTER: A sad memory of Columbine as students march for gun control

LETTER: A sad memory of Columbine as students march for gun control

March 28, 2018

To Ozaukee Press:

I served as a U. S Army ordnance officer at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts 1963 to 1965. We had the best small arms museum in the free world.   

Most of the small arms in the museum from colonial days were muzzle loaders, the type of wartime weapon used in 1791—when the Second Amendment was adopted. The rifles were breech loaded with a ramrod, a patch, some powder and a ball of lead.  

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