Posted on 06/17/2015 9:02:29 AM PDT by rktman
Gun control is something that did not start recently although it has become stricter. When did gun control even start in the United States? Aside from when America started as a country and the British trying to disarm us, we go back to when we passed laws in our own states to control certain weapons distribution. We are going back to the 1920s.
The Federal government started its gun control policies in response to the waging wars of the gangs in 1934 with the National Firearms Act of 1934. This enacted a long series of measures trying to stop the spread of increasingly destructive firearms in gang violence. Weapons involved were the sawed off shotgun, machine guns, and suppressors. The NFA was signed into law on June 26th, and Bonnie and Clyde died July 22.
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I thought it started a half-century earlier in the South to protect the Klan from their victims.
1880. Little Bill confiscated English Bob’s Peacemaker and .32 backup.
AS I recall, the Earp's alleged reason for confronting the Clantons and Lowreys next to the OK Corral was for carrying weapons in town.
Gun control started with liberal Stegosaurus’ in the Late Jurassic, 152 million years ago.
So, the Clantons and Lowreys were 2nd amendment supporters and the Earp’s were old timey bloombergs?
On the surface you’d think it is commonsense that guns and alcohol do not mix. Yet, just two weeks ago here in Reno was a small gun show at a casino wherein the admission fee included two free beers and plenty more nearby. Maybe the gun deals work better with alcohol.
you made me laugh out loud in the grand jury room lol. Now i’m going to get arrested. good thing we’re on break
WHAT? I musta missed that gun show. GSR? Where the heck was I? :>}
Many inputs are probably considerable on this topic. Another is maybe when Tammany Hall was founded. The paranoid criminal politician arose in a more organized manner — and became a target. Boss Tweed still walks amongst us in various forms.
Our current situation, the Democrats fighting to take guns away from everyone but especially poor black people and the NRA trying to slow them down has been in existence since just after the civil war.
Black Codes following the Civil War to disarm former slaves, although there were similar codes back to 1751 in Lousiana (still French), and the early 1800’s elsewhere in the colonies.
Look up “The Racist Roots of Gun Control”
Think the Earps, Hitchcock, Bat Masterson, and other lawmen. Before them, it was a free-for-all. Of course that doesn't apply to this era. Ask me why.
Don’t you think that the British taking away colonists arms had SOMETHING to do with the Revolution and the second Amendment?
Baldini’s Sports Casino.
Really? The Unforgiven is a true story or did you forget the sarcasm tag?
LOL! WOW. I didn’t see any advertising for a show at Baldini’s. Guess I gotta pay more attention. :>} I coulda sold my beer tickets for some extra ammo.
Yes, those gun control laws of the 1930s really stopped gangsters from killing each other, didn’t it? /MAXIMUM SARCASM
Gun control didn’t stop murder and violence then and it doesn’t stop murder and violence now. Prohibitions do not work. People will always get around bans and restrictions. It just creates a criminal element seeking to profit off the new prohibition.
IT NEVER WORKS.
What stopped the gangster’s violence. Oh yeah. Legalizing alcohol stopped it overnight.
Virgil Cole and Wyatt Earp knew instinctively that forbidding carrying guns within the city limits would, and did solve a lot of law enforcement problems
I have never seen a movie bar room drunk espouse the doctrine that the marshal must present a warrant drawn after a second amendment analysis by a judge.
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