04-03-2013, 12:24 PM
After the Civil War, without a great big shootin war going on, demand for guns declined and gun manufacturers turned to perfecting and manufacturing type writing machines (as typewriters were called in those days). I think I prefer that era to our own. Perhaps we should blame some of the gun hysteria on the rise of personal computers--gun manufacturers don't make those, and they pretty much killed off the typewriter; so the gunnies had to increase demand by ginning up fear and paranoia.