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When Did Gun Control Start In America?
gunsnfreedom.com ^ | 6/17/2015 | Tim

Posted on 06/17/2015 9:02:29 AM PDT by rktman

Gun control is something that did not start recently although it has become stricter. When did gun control even start in the United States? Aside from when America started as a country and the British trying to disarm us, we go back to when we passed laws in our own states to control certain weapons distribution. We are going back to the 1920s.

The Federal government started its gun control policies in response to the waging wars of the gangs in 1934 with the National Firearms Act of 1934. This enacted a long series of measures trying to stop the spread of increasingly destructive firearms in gang violence. Weapons involved were the sawed off shotgun, machine guns, and suppressors. The NFA was signed into law on June 26th, and Bonnie and Clyde died July 22.

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Hmmm. Could one postulate that even earlier than that when some western towns required cow pokes to turn in their guns when they came to town after a long cattle drive? Booze and guns still don't mix. Early gun free zones. Well, except for the outlaws who chose not to turn their guns in.
1 posted on 06/17/2015 9:02:29 AM PDT by rktman
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I thought it started a half-century earlier in the South to protect the Klan from their victims.


2 posted on 06/17/2015 9:08:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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1880. Little Bill confiscated English Bob’s Peacemaker and .32 backup.


3 posted on 06/17/2015 9:08:56 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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"Hmmm. Could one postulate that even earlier than that when some western towns required cow pokes to turn in their guns when they came to town after a long cattle drive? Booze and guns still don't mix. Early gun free zones. Well, except for the outlaws who chose not to turn their guns in."

AS I recall, the Earp's alleged reason for confronting the Clantons and Lowreys next to the OK Corral was for carrying weapons in town.

4 posted on 06/17/2015 9:09:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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Gun control started with liberal Stegosaurus’ in the Late Jurassic, 152 million years ago.


5 posted on 06/17/2015 9:10:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We're 0.000015% less evil than the Democrats!!!")
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So, the Clantons and Lowreys were 2nd amendment supporters and the Earp’s were old timey bloombergs?


6 posted on 06/17/2015 9:12:44 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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On the surface you’d think it is commonsense that guns and alcohol do not mix. Yet, just two weeks ago here in Reno was a small gun show at a casino wherein the admission fee included two free beers and plenty more nearby. Maybe the gun deals work better with alcohol.


7 posted on 06/17/2015 9:12:54 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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you made me laugh out loud in the grand jury room lol. Now i’m going to get arrested. good thing we’re on break


8 posted on 06/17/2015 9:13:44 AM PDT by dp0622
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WHAT? I musta missed that gun show. GSR? Where the heck was I? :>}


9 posted on 06/17/2015 9:14:29 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Many inputs are probably considerable on this topic. Another is maybe when Tammany Hall was founded. The paranoid criminal politician arose in a more organized manner — and became a target. Boss Tweed still walks amongst us in various forms.


10 posted on 06/17/2015 9:14:47 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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"Tim" wasn't much of a researcher - gun control hit its stride in the 1800's - Tammany Hall in NY wanted the public defenseless against their power players; in the aftermath of the US civil war democrats wanted freed blacks defenseless against them and their power. Other local and regional examples can be found.
 
 

11 posted on 06/17/2015 9:15:34 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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Our current situation, the Democrats fighting to take guns away from everyone but especially poor black people and the NRA trying to slow them down has been in existence since just after the civil war.


12 posted on 06/17/2015 9:16:05 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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Black Codes following the Civil War to disarm former slaves, although there were similar codes back to 1751 in Lousiana (still French), and the early 1800’s elsewhere in the colonies.

Look up “The Racist Roots of Gun Control”


13 posted on 06/17/2015 9:18:53 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Don't know about the East, but out on the Western frontier there came a time to stop the outlaws from shooting up towns and people.

Think the Earps, Hitchcock, Bat Masterson, and other lawmen. Before them, it was a free-for-all. Of course that doesn't apply to this era. Ask me why.

14 posted on 06/17/2015 9:21:25 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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Don’t you think that the British taking away colonists arms had SOMETHING to do with the Revolution and the second Amendment?


15 posted on 06/17/2015 9:21:39 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Baldini’s Sports Casino.


16 posted on 06/17/2015 9:22:21 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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"1880. Little Bill confiscated English Bob’s Peacemaker and .32 backup."

Really? The Unforgiven is a true story or did you forget the sarcasm tag?

17 posted on 06/17/2015 9:23:57 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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LOL! WOW. I didn’t see any advertising for a show at Baldini’s. Guess I gotta pay more attention. :>} I coulda sold my beer tickets for some extra ammo.


18 posted on 06/17/2015 9:24:03 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Yes, those gun control laws of the 1930s really stopped gangsters from killing each other, didn’t it? /MAXIMUM SARCASM

Gun control didn’t stop murder and violence then and it doesn’t stop murder and violence now. Prohibitions do not work. People will always get around bans and restrictions. It just creates a criminal element seeking to profit off the new prohibition.

IT NEVER WORKS.

What stopped the gangster’s violence. Oh yeah. Legalizing alcohol stopped it overnight.


19 posted on 06/17/2015 9:26:00 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Lord God help us.)
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Virgil Cole and Wyatt Earp knew instinctively that forbidding carrying guns within the city limits would, and did solve a lot of law enforcement problems

I have never seen a movie bar room drunk espouse the doctrine that the marshal must present a warrant drawn after a second amendment analysis by a judge.


20 posted on 06/17/2015 9:26:00 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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