Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 136
“When the bow and the sling were laid aside in favour of the gun, prudence naturally forbade the putting an instrument of so dangerous a nature into the hands of children; they however provided themselves a substitute for the gun…”
pg. 379
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Gun safety
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