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In October 2014, photos of a nigger hunting license circulated on social media sites, often accompanied by a message claiming the license had been issued by the state of Missouri: The pictured license was not issued by the state of Missouri, nor did it provide the holder the legal right to hunt and kill African-Americans. It was a real piece of racist memorabilia said to date from the 1920s (but actually artificially aged), one which was reportedly sold at an annual party thrown by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) called The Good Ol' Boys Roundup in 1995. In 1995, the New York Times and other news outlets published an articles detailing some of the racist behavior that allegedly took place at the Good Ol' Boys Roundup. Reports claimed vendors at the event sold T-shirts showing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the crosshairs of a rifle, as well as other racist memorabilia such as the aforementioned licenses. A video reportedly taken at the event by Jeff Randall of the Gadsden Minutemen also showed a Nigger Checkpoint sign and a No Blacks Allowed sign: https://youtu.be/0NqcZXVw8KsThe media attention given to this event prompted the Department of Justice to look into the matter, and while DOJ investigators found evidence of shocking racist behavior, they could not prove racist hunting licenses had been sold at the event: Similarly, news outlets reported that the most controversial incidents associated with the Good Ol' Boys Roundup may have been staged for cameras: Although the hunting licenses may not have been sold at the Good Ol' Boys Roundup, nor were they legal documents issued by the state of Missouri, these pieces of racist memorabilia really do exist, and some online stores still sell federal nigger hunting licenses: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia noted that a variety of materials with racist themes continue to be created and vended in the United States:
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