Anyone reading this thread will most likely thoroughly enjoy this:
http://www.gunsmagazine.com/1964issues/G0164.pdf
To me, it's fascinating - what's the same now, and what has been lost to the past.....
Thanks for the link to the 1964 pdf Guns Magazine. Not to derail the thread in anyway, but just to add a comment about one of many interesting articles in it.
As someone who studies gun control laws from the past, I found the article "The Second Amendment is NOT Enough" interesting. Running on pages 16-18 we get a look at gun control from a 1964 perspective.
It looks like (from the article) that the infamous Dodd Gun Hearings main concern was mail order handguns. The key suggestion at the time is to make changes to the FFA (Federal Firearms Act) with an amendment eliminating mail order handguns and leave it at that.
This makes me ponder on the thought that if that amendment was added to the then FFA . Would it have head off implementing the Gun Control Act of 1968? Or would it have been used by the Dodd hearings as the first step and still pass the '68 GCA with even more restrictions than what we have now?
A scant two years later in 1966 NJ imposed the Firearms ID card on law abiding residents and thus earning that state the title 'The State With The Worst Gun Laws of Any State". Two years after seeing what NJ did, Illinois introduced their 'FOID' card in 1968 as did Massachusetts a year or so later.
We'll never know, believe me I am no fan of any gun restrictions on law abiding American's, because the criminals will never follow any law.
Anyway, thanks again for the link.
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