2aguy
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Here we have a look at the left wing attempt to change history to aid in their movement to end the 2nd Amendment...
Topics:
-the founders and the individual Right.
--Gun laws in the old west
--gun control laws in the beginning
--the NRA and political activism
The New York Times Botches Americaās History With The Gun
The fact is that in the 19th century there were no statewide or territory-wide gun control laws for citizens, and certainly no federal laws. Nor was there a single case challenging the idea of the individual right of gun ownership. Guns were romanticized in the literature and art, and the eraās greatest engineers designed and sold them. All the while, American leaders continued to praise the Second Amendment as a bulwark against tyranny.
Those who praised this right, incidentally, include numerous post-Civil War civil rights activists, who offered particularly powerful arguments for the importance of the Second Amendment. Most gun-control regulations that did exist, after all, were used for subjugating blacks and Indians.
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The United States never came close, or even entertained, the idea of banning āall handguns.ā I have no idea what Kristof is referring to, since he offers no citation for this claim. The National Firearms Act of 1934, of course, didnāt ban any specific category of gun. The National Firearms Act of 1938 didnāt ban any specific gun, either. In fact, the NRAāstill a hobbyist group at the timeāonly supported the legislation, which allowed for regulating shotgunsā barrel length and instituted a tax on some fully automatic weapons, when Congress dropped a proposal to create a registry of fingerprints.
The first time any kind of gun ban was instituted regarding a category of weapon occurred in 1986, when the sale of fully automatic weapons was highly restricted.
The story of the NRAās dramatic radicalization by a minority is another favorite yarn of anti-Second Amendment advocatesāa misleading half-truth that is also largely irrelevant. Itās true that the NRA was not predominately political, since there was no need for such an organization in a nation where no one had seriously attempted to inhibit the ability of law-abiding citizens to own guns.
By the time the Gun Control Act of 1968 was proposedāa law that established a system for federally licensed gun dealers and set some restrictions on certain classes of firearmsāthe NRA was more involved. It successfully opposed the most invasive elements of that legislation: namely, a mandated federal registry for guns and licensing for all gun carriers. Thatās the kind of legislation gun control advocates want today.
Topics:
-the founders and the individual Right.
--Gun laws in the old west
--gun control laws in the beginning
--the NRA and political activism
The New York Times Botches Americaās History With The Gun
The fact is that in the 19th century there were no statewide or territory-wide gun control laws for citizens, and certainly no federal laws. Nor was there a single case challenging the idea of the individual right of gun ownership. Guns were romanticized in the literature and art, and the eraās greatest engineers designed and sold them. All the while, American leaders continued to praise the Second Amendment as a bulwark against tyranny.
Those who praised this right, incidentally, include numerous post-Civil War civil rights activists, who offered particularly powerful arguments for the importance of the Second Amendment. Most gun-control regulations that did exist, after all, were used for subjugating blacks and Indians.
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The United States never came close, or even entertained, the idea of banning āall handguns.ā I have no idea what Kristof is referring to, since he offers no citation for this claim. The National Firearms Act of 1934, of course, didnāt ban any specific category of gun. The National Firearms Act of 1938 didnāt ban any specific gun, either. In fact, the NRAāstill a hobbyist group at the timeāonly supported the legislation, which allowed for regulating shotgunsā barrel length and instituted a tax on some fully automatic weapons, when Congress dropped a proposal to create a registry of fingerprints.
The first time any kind of gun ban was instituted regarding a category of weapon occurred in 1986, when the sale of fully automatic weapons was highly restricted.
The story of the NRAās dramatic radicalization by a minority is another favorite yarn of anti-Second Amendment advocatesāa misleading half-truth that is also largely irrelevant. Itās true that the NRA was not predominately political, since there was no need for such an organization in a nation where no one had seriously attempted to inhibit the ability of law-abiding citizens to own guns.
By the time the Gun Control Act of 1968 was proposedāa law that established a system for federally licensed gun dealers and set some restrictions on certain classes of firearmsāthe NRA was more involved. It successfully opposed the most invasive elements of that legislation: namely, a mandated federal registry for guns and licensing for all gun carriers. Thatās the kind of legislation gun control advocates want today.
