True enough, FDR was already confiscating privately held gold and wanted to get all those evil Tommy guns out of private hands as the New Deal roared into high gear.
But today’s continuous year-after-year push for gun control really began in 1963. And by the way, I had forgotten another onerous component of GCA-68: an “amnesty period” for the turn in of unregistered automatic weapons, many of which were WWII souvenirs.
My friend’s father was a doctor who brought back a Nambu light machine gun from the Philippines. I saw and handled it. It was somehow grandfathered to his name because when the Doc passed away in 1976, his widow was ordered by the govt to surrender it.
Instead, she drove halfway across a bridge and threw it into the Potomac river.
By the way, why is minimum barrel length 18” for shotguns, and 16” for rifles? Because Congress didn’t wish to turn millions of owners of M-1 carbines into criminals.
What scares me most about a Harris-Biden preezy will be a Federal `Red Flag law’. That will turn gloating Democrats into Stasi-style informants ratting out their neighbors who put out Trump signs. It will include national hotlines for snitches more interested in settling scores than serving the state.
Geez, I’m getting too old for this cr@p! I thought 1968 was as bad as it would ever get, but 2020 takes the cake.
I always wondered why they did that (thanks ;>). It struck me years ago that the firearms laws in this country are getting just as complicated as the tax laws, and it may get to the point where gun owners have to hire consultants, just to stay legal (the way folks hire accountants/tax attorneys to stay legal with the IRS). Even professionals can't always keep things straight: saw an FFL a while back, insisting that the Mossberg 'Shockwave' was a handgun...