Tuesday, February 27, 2018

FLINTLOCK MUSKETS NOW BANNED WEAPONS IN CALIFORNIA

by Bob Walsh

After a full nine months of planning a Revolutionary War Reenactment Festival planned for April in the Elk Grove Regional Park has been cancelled due to the fact that there would have been 13 dangerous military weapons (flintlock muskets) used during the reenactment.

The Historical Society asked the Cosumnes Community Services District board to grant them a waiver. The board refused, suggesting the reenactors use wooden sticks in place of actual dangerous firearms. The Historical Society suggested the Board go fuck themselves.

I'm sure they were actually somewhat more polite than I would have been.

2 comments:

Trey Rusk said...

It just wouldn't be a re-enactment without the discharge of weapons of the era. Using sticks and yelling bang doesn't yield a historical perspective. Anyway, history is not important to millennials. Maybe they can tear down a monument instead.

bob walsh said...

For most millennials history began when Justin Bieber was born.