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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 6293511" data-attributes="member: 12306"><p>Throughout Europe, there were laws requiring people (well, at least respectable people with money who could be more-or-less trusted to want to uphold the status-quo) to possess arms and armor (according to status and wealth) and to practice with them.  England's laws were completely normal.  The laws had absolutely nothing to do with bows (or other weapons) being particularly hard to learn, and everything to do with states being too poor to maintain standing armies of any size: if you can't afford to hire people, equip them, and them hide them away in training camps for a few months, then you need to be able to recruit more-or-less competent, already geared people.  Regardless of what weapons they are going to be using.</p></blockquote><p></p>