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Did Native Americans have guns

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When the Europeans originally came to the New World and met the Native Americans, they were not armed with guns. The had bows and arrows, spears, and other similar weapons. They came to use guns afterwards, through the Europeans.

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Yes. Bought, stolen, traded and killed for.

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