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Western miners and loggers defended themselves and their jobs with rifles and dynamite.
Licensed dealers may sell rifles and shotguns only to persons age 18 or over, and handguns to persons age 21 or over.
With difficulty, Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, tried to persuade the Yemeni government to accept these visitors and allow them to carry arms, though the Yemenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons).
Métis and Cree Indians were devastatingly efficient with their repeater rifles, and the transcontinental railway builders made a deliberate policy of clearing the tracks of migrating buffalo.
Nearby, the history of the Kagoshima region is nicely summed up in the ultramodern Reimeikan Prefectural Museum, which includes local arts and crafts as well as examples of those first Portuguese matchlock rifles.