Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1902 — Flint Lock Guns. [ARTICLE]

Flint Lock Guns.

Ex-Congressman William D. Bynum, of Indianapolis, who is a member of the commission that is codifying the laws of the United States, has made a most interesting discovery. He finds that there is still on the statute books a law requiring the militia of the sev eral states to be equipped with flint lock guns. This law passed in 1792 and has never been repealed, and therefore is of binding effect. The scope of the'commissioner’s authority enables it to leave out of the revised version such laws as are manifestly obsolete, whether they have been repealed or not. “I think there is no doubt about the propriety of omitting this particu lar law,” said Mr. Bynum. “I had some experience with flint lock guns in my youth and it is my deliberate opinion that there is time enough be tweeq the polling of the trigger and the discharge of the gun to enable a small force equipped with modern arms to mow down a whole army ot flint lock fighters.? Tn is is only a sample of hundreds of musty and obsolete United States statutes, which, for some unknown reason have never been repealed.

The Citizens' Band has been engaged to play at Lowell July 4th. It is thought that a large crowd from here will celebrate at Lowell.