In the 1863 draft & race riots in New York City, the largely poor & working-class Irish Democrat rioters lynched black people & attacked Republicans, abolitionists, the wealthy, & pro-Union newspapers. The New York Times survived by surrounding its building with Gatling guns.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @CSBadeaux
this was back when the NYT saw nothing wrong with private citizens owning fully automatic weapons and "weapons of war."
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Replying to @streiffredstate @CSBadeaux
To be fair, they borrowed them from the Army. But yep.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @CSBadeaux
interesting. The biggest purchaser of Gatlings after the Civil War were major industrialists like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Pullman, etc. who used them to safeguard property against "labor actions." They owned several times the number of Gatlings owned by the Army.
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Replying to @CSBadeaux @streiffredstate
I'm wondering now how many of those were purchased from Army surplus.
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