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Ready to head for St. Louis

Posted by David Hardy · 8 April 2007 12:03 PM

I'll be heading to NRA convention in St. Louis, and looking up some ancestral sites. One group of great-great-great uncles included the Barton brothers. David Baron was Missouri's first US Senator, and Joshua Barton was the first US Attorney. Joshua was killed in a duel on Bloody Island which now (the channel having silted in) is part of East St. Louis. Another branch of the family, the Phillips, had a gunsmith in St. Louis in 1850.

It wasn't Joshua Barton's first trip to Bloody Island. He earlier served as second to Sen. Thomas Hart Bention in a duel there.

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Mark | April 10, 2007 8:50 PM | Reply

David,

While you in St. Louis, would it be possible to get the NRA to lay off that screwed up DC personal protection act? I know that you can't do it yourself, but while you are schmoozing around kind of drop a hint that it really is not welcome.

Mark

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