I’ve read that GCA 68 came to us because the Panthers were arming up and marching in the street with long guns.
NPR knows that gun control is racist.
We got the 1968 GCA was four years of intensive MSM indoctrination after the murder of John Kennedy.
When Bobby Kennedy was murdered they went ballistic in anti-gun hysteria.
Go to your local library and go into the 1968 archive section of magazines like LIFE, LOOK, SATURDAY EVENING POST, and major newspapers of the time. You will see what hell the gun owners went through at that time.
With the passage of the 1968 GCA, anti-gunners got most of what they wanted which was a ban on the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles and surplus handguns, a ban on small foreign handguns, and the filling out of BATF forms and lots of small nitpicking rules.
They did not get federal registration of guns and they did not even ban the very handgun Bobby Kennedy was killed with.
After the 1968 GCA was passed the MSM began lobbying for the banning of small handguns, and then called for the ban on all handguns, then years later a ban on certain long guns.
Gun rights are central in the militant black nationalist manifestos from the 1950s-60s. Who knows whether it was to protect them from crackers or to arm up for revolution.