To fix our gun crisis, we should revert back to ’60s gun laws
CaliFFL
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This dude is such a 'king Fudd, he thinks gun laws were more restrictive in 1960 than now.
How does this crap get published?
My proposal is simply that we revert to the gun laws that prevailed in the United States around 1960. From a public-safety standpoint, that was far from a perfect world. The cheap revolvers called “Saturday night specials” ruled the night in many cities. Loopholes as to the sale and registration of long arms allowed the importation of the mail-order rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used to kill President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Yet law-abiding hunters and target shooters had all the weapons and firepower they needed and were not in a state of constant turmoil over state and federal laws that restricted most shotguns to three rounds and most semiautomatic rifles and handguns to fewer than 20 rounds. American gun and ammunition manufacturers such as Remington, Winchester and Colt were thriving. Nobody argued that a six-shot revolver was inadequate for home-protection emergencies. Deer and elk hunters who used larger caliber rifles felt amply equipped with standard magazines of a half-dozen or so shells.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/01/how-split-nra-two/
Adam J. McCleod
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Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Adam J. McCleod