Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns

[Amarok]

This seems kind of based on the benedictio armorum. During the dark ages were priests use to bless the armor and weapons of crusaders .

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Of course America has this odd tendency to mix guns with christianity
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/good-riddance-to-jesus-ri_b_434657.html

In the wake of the revelation by ABC News that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were being supplied with rifle sights adorned with references to New Testament Bible verses, Trijicon, the Michigan based contractor that manufactures the sights, has agreed to stop putting the references on products supplied to the military.