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This gun, the 1847 Colt Walker, was the most powerful repeating handgun in the world until the creation of the .357 magnum in 1935 (discounting weird prototype pieces like the Mars pistol).

It is also the official handgun of Texas.
 
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Seafarer said:
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This gun, the 1847 Colt Walker, was the most powerful repeating handgun in the world until the creation of the .357 magnum (discounting weird prototype pieces like the Mars pistol).

It is also the official handgun of Texas.
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It's also Clint Eastwood's gun in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Other fun fact: it was while shooting that film that Clint Eastwood met Sondra Locke, who starred as his love interest. They had a real life relationship after that for 14 years, and shot six more films together.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Mary Todd Lincoln was a massive cunt, by all accounts though. Supposedly, Ulysses S. Grant wasn’t at Ford’s Theatre that night because his wife found her to be insufferable.
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She was literally severely mentally ill. She was committed to an asylum even. Also she'd lost basically every member of her family early.
 
AnOminous said:
She was literally severely mentally ill. She was committed to an asylum even. Also she'd lost basically every member of her family early.
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Yeah, but I find Julia Grant hating her hilarious. Julia had actually fairly close to Grant during the entire War and was supposedly very good people person, but she despised Mary Todd. Woman could stand being near some of the worst fighting of the war, but viewed Mary Todd as a massive cunt.

Also, Todd got institutionalized after Lincoln got assassinated.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Also, Todd got institutionalized after Lincoln got assassinated.
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Well imagine you're already hugely fucked up and lost basically your entire family, then you watch your husband get his brains blown out in front of you. This isn't going to do your already precarious mental state any favors.
 
AnOminous said:
Well imagine you're already hugely fucked up and lost basically your entire family, then you watch your husband get his brains blown out in front of you. This isn't going to do your already precarious mental state any favors.
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? By all accounts she was a raging cunt prior to her kids dying and Lincoln getting shot.

I just find it funny that Julia Grant (Fun Fact: She was cross eyed and the first First Lady to write her own memoirs) might have saved her husbands life or doomed Lincoln because Mary Todd was unbearable.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I just find it funny that Julia Grant (Fun Fact: She was cross eyed and the first First Lady to write her own memoirs) might have saved her husbands life or doomed Lincoln because Mary Todd was unbearable.
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Other than jumping in front of the bullet I'm not sure what anyone could have done. Maybe our super-modern Secret Service could have done it.
 
AnOminous said:
Other than jumping in front of the bullet I'm not sure what anyone could have done. Maybe our super-modern Secret Service could have done it.
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Eh, it’s more just a passing thought I have. A lot of the other conspirators pissed their pants and gave up on the other targets because their was a chance that they would immediately get the shit kicked out of them if they pulled of the assassination.

Fun Fact: There was actually a conspiracy to kill most of the Lincoln Administration. Booth was the only one successful. Secretary of State Sewards would-be-assassin actually did bluff his way into almost killing Seward, but failed due to a number of factors.

The Seward one of insanely over-the-top. Lewis Powell, the assassin, bluffs his way into where Powell is staying and basically stabs everyone and I mean the guard, the doctor, three of Seward’s sons, his daughter, and a servant. He even stabs Seward who survived due to a neckbrace protecting his jugular and carotid.
The defense attorney for Powell literally said “Well no one died, so don’t hang him!”
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
The Seward one of insanely over-the-top. Lewis Powell, the assassin, bluffs his way into where Powell is staying and basically stabs everyone and I mean the guard, the doctor, three of Seward’s sons, his daughter, and a servant. He even stabs Seward who survived due to a neckbrace protecting his jugular and carotid.
The defense attorney for Powell literally said “Well no one died, so don’t hang him!”
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This is why any time some fucked up shit happens and some moron on the TV news says THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, a hand should come out of the sky and smack the shit out of them and remind them this kind of shit has always happened.
 
AnOminous said:
This is why any time some fucked up shit happens and some moron on the TV news says THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, a hand should come out of the sky and smack the shit out of them and remind them this kind of shit has always happened.
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To clarify, do you mean the defense attorney pulling out the hood nigger defense or the stabbing spree? Because anyone who has the slightest interest in history knows how retarded people are.
 
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