[robowombat]

Jack Lord was a loud mouthed proponent of civilian disarmament. He became very rich from % O and lived in a gated mansion on Black Point in Honolulu and definitely wanted the peasants kept disarmed. He also was a major cop wannabe from his TV land performance and believed only LEO’s should have guns. A detestable man all around.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Detestable may be a bit strong. Many people had fallen for this line of thinking at the time. Skyrocketing crime under Ford and Carter caused most rational people to think again.

[elcid1970]

I remember one Five-O episode where the neighbors report seeing an `old man with a gun’. The cops go to his apartment & find a harmless old coot with an ancient Sharps carbine from the Civil War in his closet, and they CONFISCATE it!