It was simply a kick to yourself because you try to make a remark about Obama having ties with KSA. But its every president , red and blue.
As for Philadelphia, the crime rate is lower then other major cities, and Center city is very safe compared to some neighborhoods in the city. Like North Philly. Try visiting and check it out. We got some great museums and historic sites
Indeed Philly is a city with a very rich heritage.
Most of it is in Bucks county Pa. and immigrants from Germany that were gunsmiths settled there as did skilled tradesmen from trades. Back in the day a gunsmith was a gun builder, there being no manufacturers of firearms as this was pre-industrial.
Gunsmiths were in great demand to supply weapons for pioneers expanding the vast wildernes that, then was Ohio.
There were so many skilled gunsmiths that rifles built in Philly were said to be of the Bucks county school.
A journeyman rifle maker took on helpers knowns as apprentices, thus the term "school".
That meant rifles from Bucks county were highly prized for their dependability, longevity, and accuracy.
I have a Buck county handbuilt replica long rifle with AAA grade curly maple full length stock, Colrain swamped barrel and Davis lock and trigger. It's a repilca circa 1740s flintlock in .40 caliber. It's a small bore as in those days a big game rifle for
deer, bison, elk, bear, etc. were a minimum for .50 caliber with .60, .69. and .75 bore rifles were considered adequate
for large game in those days.
A .32, .36, .40 & .45 bore rifle was considered a small game rifle suitable for game up to deer size animals.
I also have a hand built replica of an American Jeager which would have been built in Bucks county or that area.
It's a "medium" bore of .58 caliber, Colrain swamped barrel, full walnut stock of plain grade, Davis trigger and lock, nothing fancy thus the term American Jeager. The German Jeager was rather fancy thus very expensive so smiths of the day would
build a plain jane rifle but one that worked beautifully.
The builder did fancy engrave the metal of mine tho. It too is a rock lock, meaning it fired using a flint stone to spark the pan charge.
Jeager is German meaning hunter.
I paid a grand each for those rifles and today they are easily worth 3X that amount.
They were the "assult rifles" of the age.
Oh, man, did I ever go off topic this time.
I hope the mods don't beat me too bad.
This must have something to do with terrorism or I'm in deep doo-doo with the mods.
Oh, o.k., the flintlock was also used by Wahabbis to promote islam.