In 2012, in a change that cannot be positively associated with New Hampshire’s libertarians, the state attained the highest per-capita rate of machine-gun ownership in the nation. Federal data indicated the presence in the state of nearly ten thousand registered weapons, which meant that if you were in a fully packed three-hundred-seat New Hampshire movie theater watching the latest Death Wish revival, there were, statistically speaking, two registered machine-gun owners sitting beside you in the darkness, drinking it all in and getting—if Bruce Willis did his job well—really into the idea of
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