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>Blame the Second Amendment as currently interpreted. It's been largely interpreted this way throughout most of our history, until around the 1960s when civil
by Clubber 2y ago
>Blame the Second Amendment as currently interpreted.
It's been largely interpreted this way throughout most of our history, until around the 1960s when civil rights activists started carrying them. All the modern gun regulation started then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Of course 1934 gun control came about due to people like Al Capone and the like.
- larkost 2y agoNo, you have history on its head. It was not seen as an absolute until the , and 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, then strengthened in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Prior to that reasonable regulations were allowed (and what is reasonable was hotly debated) were permitted, so long as there were legitimate government interests. The main point of the Second Amendment from the framers perspective was to prevent the need (or even the existence) of a standing army. Of course from a modern perspective this is near-ridiculous.
- Clubber 2y agoYou could have fully automatic Thompson sub machine guns mailed to your house before 1934. You could have any other type of gun shipped to your house before 1968. All this is (relatively) recent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968