Finally I got two years ago the RATM “Nuns & Guns” longsleeve. I’m happy about this piece even if it’s a reprint and not the original from the early 90s! From my point of view is this piece (with this great picture) one of RATM’s best merchandise shirts/longsleeve ever!
The story behind the picture with the nuns is as follows:
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. The Vatican Women’s Rifle Team – making a habit out of lock ‘n’ load.
If there are singing nuns, it would appear that there were also “shooting nuns” who formed the Vatican Women’s Rifle Team. However, the “nuns with guns” were reportedly disbanded in February 1938 perhaps because Pope Pius XI didn’t think the existence of the rifle team would advance the pious image of the Catholic Church.
In any case, one of the nuns known as Sister Juliette (extreme right in the photo) must have chucked her habit for military togs because she reportedly joined the French resistance in 1942 and distinguished herself as a sharpshooter.
According to some reports, the sister was good with covert operations and was responsible for some assassinations. The French government was said to have awarded her the Médaille Militaire in 1946, after which she tried her hand in politics. She didn’t have a lot of luck however, and so re-entered the convent sometime in 1949.
jarodbanigan on
Woah! Never seen the longsleeve version of this , super nice
DavyJones480 on
Thx! It was available just in the early until the mid 90s! The shirt version was more in circulation during the years!
thshirts on
The best shirt ever!!! The only bad thing about this reprint in the somewhat thin quality of the this long sleeve.