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Shrek

(3,980 posts) Mon May 20, 2013, 01:22 PM May 2013

Yet another reason to love Eleanor Roosevelt

It was Eleanor’s determination to drive her own car that led to her pistol ownership. The Secret Service begged her to take an agent, a police escort, or at least a chauffeur; she refused. The pistol was a compromise: a small bit of protection to put their minds at ease.

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Yet another reason to love Eleanor Roosevelt (Original Post) Shrek May 2013 OP

As evidenced from pics of her shooting her .38, Eleanors38 May 2013 #1

That's awesome. Brickbat May 2013 #2

Tall, slender, intelligent, populist and independent. PDJane May 2013 #3

And I suspect, the brains in that outfit. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #4

The thought had occurred to me before this.... PDJane May 2013 #5

Eleanors38

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1. As evidenced from pics of her shooting her .38,

Reply to Shrek (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 01:32 PM

May 2013

she owned and used guns well before the 1957 date appearing on the permit. May be urban legend, but she was said to keep a .38 at bedside, while Franklin kept a .32. I don't want to read too much into that, however.