Procedural jargon notwithstanding, the enactment of 1968 GCA was a watershed moment in U.S. politics. It was the first piece of legislation that put the gun control debate on the map.
Political Context of the GCA
It should be noted that the GCA was not the first piece of gun control passed at the federal level. In 1934, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Firearms Act of 1934 into law. The first comprehensive gun law at the federal level, the NFA taxed and mandated registration of certain firearms such as machine guns, sawed-off rifles, and sawed-off shotguns. This law was passed under the pretext of addressing mob-style violence during Prohibition. But careful review of the New Deal era shows how the NFA was just another piece of FDR’s unprecedented social engineering program.
This NFA was followed up by the Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which created a precursor to the 1968 GCA’s FFL system. Despite the government’s encroachments on gun rights, the federal government stayed away from further regulation for the next three decades.
Once the 1960s arrived, gun politics reverted back to its interventionist roots. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King caused federal policymakers to rethink gun policy. In the JFK case, considerable uproar was made about how his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was able to acquire his firearm via mail-order purchase. Even though President Lyndon Baines Johnson was not able get licensing and gun registration on the table, he succeeded in signing the GCA into law.
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FDR the father of american socialism
Our "leaders", then, now, and forever, can stick every one of those laws right up their arse.
They outlawed them for US (We, the people), but made sure to surround themselves with men who carry more firepower than an infantry squad.
They KNOW (then, now, and forever) that they are but a moment away from having those guns USED ON THEM.
They thought (then, now, and forever) they are RULERS, not servants.
Buys guns, make guns, alter guns, and keep any gun you want. Loaded and ready for use. Pity the stupid man who wants them and is willing to kiss his family goodbye before he comes for them. He won't be going home again.
You don't need ANY man's permission. OTHER men have already given it to us, using that document that our current bunch of pansy-ass "leaders" seem to so quickly and gleefully think THEY wrote.
Did I just make ANOTHER list??? Good.
Send the single men first, but don't think you won't get a chance, too. A slim one, but a chance, nevertheless.
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