Miners at Blair mountain pose with their firearms. 1921

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Oh my gosh i forgot about Blair Mountain. Wasnt it the biggest government opposing armed group in the US (besides the civil war obviously)?

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They didn’t fight the the government directly it was just the miners vs the coal companies that duked it out

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Specifically Pinkertons, or some other security company iirc

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Thats a Lotta Vetterlis

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I heard anecdotally years ago that Vetterlis were big because they were a “low cost bear gun”

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Probably bought a crate of them from Bannerman's

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Ah yes the Vetterli Model 1870/87 my beloved

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Wow why would they ever need those weapons of war? They should simply comply and keep working unsafe underpaid jobs! Such an uncivilized group!

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Yep and people who don't know history all that well tell you that you can trust the government.

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See, Swiss vetterlis did see combat

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Fucking heroes, the lot of them

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