As a token of good faith, Austin gave Johnson a replica of George Washington’s flintlock pistol, to let him know that he has Austin’s full support in the general election. Tearing up on the front stage of the convention floor, Austin said to Gary as he presented him with the pistol, “You have my sword, and you have my gun.”

In a video, Austin Petersen  explains that the gun is a prized possession, and that he is giving it to Gary Johnson.  The pistol is a flintlock replica of one of George Washington's guns.  It thus has multiple symbolic meanings to Second Amendment supporters.  It represents liberty, limited government, the Second Amendment, and the Constitution that George Washington helped to write.
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The Libertarian Presidential candidate, Johnson threw it in the trash. The pistol, as part of a matched pair of firing replicas, sells for about $2,500. Non-firing replicas go for about $86. It is not clear if the pistol was capable of firing or not.
Whichever version of the pistol was thrown in the trash, it shows a severe lack of judgement on the Johnson campaign. The discarding of the pistol was witnessed, the pistol was recovered, and returned to Austin Peterson.

So, I think that we should have the  power to control our borders. The problem of course is that we that we have had bad immigration laws written since the late 1800's started writing it we didn't the founding fathers only give the feds power of a naturalization. So how you would become an American citizen not how you would get here. So, we kind of had mass migration for quite some time here in the United States. Illegal immigration is a relatively new concept and we have some court precedents that have been set that are problematic. We don't know if you're born here. If you're born here that makes you an American citizen or if your parents exclusively are what make you an American citizen. That has been defined by the courts yet. So we do have a little bit of legal trouble  Abraham Lincoln you know, this is the time when the anti-immigrant settiment started rise of the know-nothings. Abraham Lincoln was famously said if you want to get a bad law repealed, enforce it completely. Enforce it to the fullest extent of the law. President Trump did that and then he turned around and sign an executive order because His predecessors have been doing something wrong. But of course the Democrats didn't call out Obama when he was doing it. I believe in a security check, a disease check, before you come here like the Ellis Island years. That's not open borders. Just because I don't want to give away American civil liberties or engage in a massive undertaking for eminent domain, which is not conservative. I think that the federal government destroys everything it touches in general and they waste cash and they spend more than they project on projects. I think we can have border security without creating a massive FDR style public works program on our Souther border. You know, it'll probably take at least 20 years to just steal up all the land under eminent domain. Most people don't know the president. You serve two terms. It's only 8 years. So question is is do you want a yes-man to go to Washington DC? Because a yes-man is not an honest man. I am running against a lot of yes-man. I'm running against a lot of yes-men, and their willing to say whatever it takesto win and have power. I'm not willing to lie to the people of Missouri so that I can exercise arbitrary authority over them. And so I want to make sure that everybody understands what the economics of the stitutation is. You can't have a hoard of peole coming here being undocumented perhaps spreading infectious diseases. But if there is a hurricane in Texas and people want to spread south remember, wall that can be built to keep people out can also be used to keep people in. I don't feel like going through a checkpoint if I'm trying to get the hell out of something happens if I'm on the Border, you know celebrating on the Rio Grande for whatever reason, you know Texas, that's 2/3 that land is privately owned privately owned by the states. So, the Federal government has to come to do all the taking up of that. I don't I don't relish or have glee in the government coming in and using it at domain to take up people's property. So yeah, I think an Ellis Island style protcol, you know, maybe some some centers were people can come and be processed. Everybody wants less illegal immigration. I want no illegal immigration. None, zero. But that means you have to make a legal immigration simpler. Some people want to get rid of them immigration over how many they want fewer people. But if you don't want fewer legal immigrants, you're going to get more illegal immigrants that's just supply and demand.