Makes it legal for the former Commandant of West Point Military Academy, Robert E. Lee, to capture and hold John Brown and his outfit for trial I guess. Maybe it wasn't then. After all Harper's Ferry was where the Federally authorized arsenal, by President George Washington
, was making hundreds of those fancy new percussion cap Harper's Ferry rifles and he was there, which was reason enough for some to start shooting. Later the arsenal burned and today is covered in the numerous flood sediments of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, Harper's Ferry is where they join. On this day, 220 years ago, in 1791, the US passed the "Bill of Rights" and as long as militias are guaranteed the right to bear arms, we might actually need such an Executive law someday again?
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