This was known back in 1968 after Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian Immigrant and Lyndon Johnson began to push for the 1968 gun control law. He got it. Lots of democrats lined up to tote the gun registration mantra. Even Hollywood fell into line with dozens of anti-gun TV shows over the next twenty years.
One problem:
“In 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.”
So they passed a weakened version in the 1968 Gun Control Law we are saddled with today which has done NOTHING to stop crime.
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.
And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi weapons law as a pattern...
“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.
Satisfied? In stead they went to the next step in banning guns, then the next and next....When they thought they had banned A-s-s-sault Rifles they made a grab for single shot .50 Cal rifles. They will never be satisfied till they have all of them banned.
I think I might have one of them there “A-s-s-sault Rifles”. It’s a .54 caliber black powder flintlock rifle, which on a good day, with my arthritic hands, I can load and fire it twice per minute. I can’t own it in California, thanks to Arnold, because “it might shoot down an airplane”.