I remember myself, as a 14 year old teen in 1961, going into a store to buy a box of .22 shorts for my new rifle. No problems. No waiting period, no background check.
Then in 1962, Democrats Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Cellar proposed the first “handgun only” registration scheme.
From there it ballooned to democrat demands for the total abolition of all gun rights in the US, one step at a time.
a 14 year old teen in 1961, going into a store to buy a box of .22
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Yeah, Western Auto, “Revelation” maybe - $0.47 for shorts, $.49 for LR.