I’m in the city which is over oppressive, my schools were overrun with illegal immigrants and refugees that added no value to my culture. I fell behind the lines made some mistakes should I be allowed to own a gun to protect my self a family?
As a life long New Yorker I was denied the opportunity to own guns unless they were long guns taxed by the city with ridiculous taxes and rules. Thankfully I no longer live in the city.
As to the question.... During the latter 19th and early 20th Centuries there were some western states that had rules on the books that when felons released from jail they were to be given a horse saddle and a rifle.