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Different places. Some from the Spanish and other explorers, traders and pilgrims, people they killed, etc. Often from trading goods and supplies. Most of the guns they had during the indian wars of the 1870s were civil war repeating rifles that the US Army had declared "obsolete" and wasteful of ammunition (the Army replaced these with the new single shot trapdoor rifle which was often hard and slow to reload and sometimes experienced cartridge jams) that had been bought surplus and illegally resold to the indians.

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