“Not many people know that non-government museums are bound by firearms laws in the United States,” said Ashley Hlebinsky, Executive Director of the Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming. “As a result, many historically significant artifacts are destroyed because they cannot be legally possessed by non-governmental entities. No matter where one sits on the political debate regarding firearms, a desire to preserve our nation’s history should be universal. Artifacts connect us to a time and place and we learn, for better or worse, who we are, and who we want to be. It’s exciting to see a bill seeking to allow respected institutions to be stewards of those collections in perpetuity.”
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