NYC passed the first "gun control" laws.
as usual, you are WRONG.
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_039300_gunsandgunco.htm
Gun control, in the modern sense, was a fixture of the pre-Civil War Slave Codes designed to prevent a rebellion. These laws restricted all blacks both slave and free. Immediately after the war, laws were passed in the South to prohibit freedmen from owning firearms. But in response, civil rights legislation during Reconstruction made prohibition of black gun ownership impossible, so southern laws were rewritten to restrict pistols to the expensive "Army pistol." The effect was similar to a poll tax—it discriminated against both blacks and poor whites.