after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act which banned mail-order rifle sales such as the one Lee Harvey Oswald obtained to murder President John F. Kennedy.
Ah yes. The old tyranny by non-sequitur trick.
5 posted on 05/27/2023 7:42:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
And gee, think of the many thousands, if not millions, of mail order rifles that were not involved in criminal or tragic (accidents or suicides) tragic misuse, let alone what happened to JFK.
20 posted on 05/27/2023 8:53:32 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )