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> IIRC, gun rights groups like the NRA want black people and women to buy guns. Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

> IIRC, gun rights groups like the NRA want black people and women to buy guns. Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

Throwawayaerlei 5y ago
If the best you can come up with is a ten years prior to the Cincinnati Revolt five decades old law, you've got nothing.
tablespoon 5y ago
> Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act So? That was in 1967. Do you think nothing has changed since then? IIRC, I don't even think the NRA was even much of a gun rights organization until later. You need to work on your gotcha skills. Look at this: Here's the featured video on the (now defunct) NRATV youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84A_fRQfTAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84A_fRQfTAE tl;dr: black guy criticizing Biden for gun control and stuff like his previous opposition to school busing. An for completeness, this looks like a channel they had for women: https://www.youtube.com/user/nrawomen https://www.youtube.com/user/nrawomen
- Throwawayaerlei 5y ago
  That was in 1967, do you think nothing has changed since then? IIRC, I don't even think the NRA was even much of a gun rights organization until later. They were fighting it then, I've read many membership magazine issues from the 1960s, but lost so comprehensively starting in the next year with the Gun Control Act of 1968 and through the high point of gun control in the 1970s that the leadership decided to surrender this issue and retreat to hunting and target shooting and move their headquarters from D.C. to Colorado. In the 1977 annual meeting in Cincinnati this leadership was ousted and people with a focus that included even having the right to hunt and target shoot with guns replaced them. Fast forward another ten years and the nationwide sweep of "shall issue" and better concealed carry regimes started in Florida with help from the NRA. Now 42 states and ~75% of the population, for all but Illinois done legislatively.

> IIRC, gun rights groups like the NRA want black people and women to buy guns. Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

Throwawayaerlei 5y ago

If the best you can come up with is a ten years prior to the Cincinnati Revolt five decades old law, you've got nothing.

tablespoon 5y ago

> Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act So? That was in 1967. Do you think nothing has changed since then? IIRC, I don't even think the NRA was even much of a gun rights organization until later. You need to work on your gotcha skills. Look at this: Here's the featured video on the (now defunct) NRATV youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84A_fRQfTAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84A_fRQfTAE tl;dr: black guy criticizing Biden for gun control and stuff like his previous opposition to school busing. An for completeness, this looks like a channel they had for women: https://www.youtube.com/user/nrawomen https://www.youtube.com/user/nrawomen

Throwawayaerlei 5y ago
That was in 1967, do you think nothing has changed since then? IIRC, I don't even think the NRA was even much of a gun rights organization until later. They were fighting it then, I've read many membership magazine issues from the 1960s, but lost so comprehensively starting in the next year with the Gun Control Act of 1968 and through the high point of gun control in the 1970s that the leadership decided to surrender this issue and retreat to hunting and target shooting and move their headquarters from D.C. to Colorado. In the 1977 annual meeting in Cincinnati this leadership was ousted and people with a focus that included even having the right to hunt and target shoot with guns replaced them. Fast forward another ten years and the nationwide sweep of "shall issue" and better concealed carry regimes started in Florida with help from the NRA. Now 42 states and ~75% of the population, for all but Illinois done legislatively.