the first federal gun control laws were imposed by the FDR administration, The second amendment is not a gun control law since it -in no way-controls what firearms people can own. It merely reiterates the fact that the federal government was NOT delegated any PROPER power to restrict the rights of lawful people to keep and bear arms
KNOW your history....
Yup... the "uppity" factor!
en.wikipedia.org
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"The
Sullivan Act is a
gun control law in
New York state "
[1] The NY state law required
licenses for New Yorkers to
possess firearms small enough to be concealed. Private possession of such firearms without a license was a
misdemeanor, and carrying them in public was a
felony. The act was named for its primary legislative sponsor, state senator
Timothy Sullivan, a notoriously corrupt
Tammany Hall Democratic politician. ....
Controversy[edit]
The first person convicted under the law was an Italian immigrant named Marino Rossi who was travelling to a job interview and carrying a revolver for fear of the
Black Hand.
[13] At sentencing the judge declared:
"It is unfortunate that this is the custom with you and your kind, and that fact, combined with your irascible nature, furnishes much of the criminal business in this country."
[14] Prior to Marino's arrest, others had been arrested under the new law but were released without charges.
[15] ..."
110 years ago...
Permits for handguns go back more than 100 years there
timeline.com
"David Graham Phillips rose later than usual
on January 23, 1911, ... And just steps away from his daily stop at the Princeton Club on the north side of the park at Lexington Avenue, Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, confronted him and yelled, “Here you go!” and rapidly shot him six times. Moments later, Goldsborough wailed, “Here I go!” before fatally shooting himself in the head. ...Sullivan shot back that maybe the bill wouldn’t suit profit-seeking gunmakers, but the broad, commonsense public demand, police and “all the judges of New York City” were enough to pass the legislation. New York was finished tolerating “pistol toters,” he said.
But he also made a social appeal for would-be criminals. “I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now,” he argued.
With support from the Merchants’ Association of New York, prominent civic leaders,
and even oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses and was quickly approved by Gov. John Dix.
Although the Sullivan Act has been challenged in court and debated for more than a century, its basic provisions are still in force and credited with the relative low numbers of gun violence for a city its size..."
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