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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1889168" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>As has been said, there have been waves of gun control, that come along when collectivist philosophies are dominant in the country and in its government. One of the first waves was with the Jim Crow type laws, when many cities started requiring permits to carry weapons, with the purpose being to deny them to black folks and other "undesirables." Then came the Progressive era in the late 1800s/early 1900s, in which it started to be accepted that government was going to right all social wrongs through legislation and regulation... this was when many more prohibitions on the carry of weapons in public were drafted. You might consider the 1934 NFA a part of this trend... the government started the organized crime problem with the War on Alcohol, and then came to the rescue with legislation like the NFA. The next wave was with all the shootings and assassinations in the 1960s like JFK, RFK, MLK, and the UT shooting... this was when they outlawed the sales of firearms by direct mail order with the 1968 GCA, which put an end to guns being in the Sears catalogs and such, as they had traditionally been sold before. The GCA also created the requirement that new guns only be sold through licensed dealers, which created a lot of red tape and really cut down on mom and pop operations, department stores, etc. selling guns, as it wasn't worth it to jump through all the hoops for something that isn't really their main product. Then there were the various restrictions on importations put in place by Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton, as well as the 1994 Brady Bill, which all really cut down on the market for imported firearms. I know Target quit selling handgun ammo after Columbine. There has been a general decline in shooting and marksmanship in this country as the population has become more urban and less rural. That trend, as well as all the school shootings, are probably responsible for the decline in marksmanship programs in secondary schools, and for the heavy handed laws like the Gun Free School Zone Act. </p><p></p><p>There have been some positive trends lately though... over the past decade, the vast majority of states have re-legalized the carry of firearms in public. Unfortunately most still require a license to do so, a throwback to the Jim Crow and Progressive eras, but a handful of states have instituted full-on Constitutional Carry, and there are movements building to do the same in many others, including this one. Gun ownership is starting to increase, and Americans are starting to hold much more pro-gun views. It is actually getting to be pretty hard to get elected to office with an anti-gun stance in most places in this country. And of course we at Project Appleseed are working hard to restore our heritage of marksmanship!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1889168, member: 4235"] As has been said, there have been waves of gun control, that come along when collectivist philosophies are dominant in the country and in its government. One of the first waves was with the Jim Crow type laws, when many cities started requiring permits to carry weapons, with the purpose being to deny them to black folks and other "undesirables." Then came the Progressive era in the late 1800s/early 1900s, in which it started to be accepted that government was going to right all social wrongs through legislation and regulation... this was when many more prohibitions on the carry of weapons in public were drafted. You might consider the 1934 NFA a part of this trend... the government started the organized crime problem with the War on Alcohol, and then came to the rescue with legislation like the NFA. The next wave was with all the shootings and assassinations in the 1960s like JFK, RFK, MLK, and the UT shooting... this was when they outlawed the sales of firearms by direct mail order with the 1968 GCA, which put an end to guns being in the Sears catalogs and such, as they had traditionally been sold before. The GCA also created the requirement that new guns only be sold through licensed dealers, which created a lot of red tape and really cut down on mom and pop operations, department stores, etc. selling guns, as it wasn't worth it to jump through all the hoops for something that isn't really their main product. Then there were the various restrictions on importations put in place by Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton, as well as the 1994 Brady Bill, which all really cut down on the market for imported firearms. I know Target quit selling handgun ammo after Columbine. There has been a general decline in shooting and marksmanship in this country as the population has become more urban and less rural. That trend, as well as all the school shootings, are probably responsible for the decline in marksmanship programs in secondary schools, and for the heavy handed laws like the Gun Free School Zone Act. There have been some positive trends lately though... over the past decade, the vast majority of states have re-legalized the carry of firearms in public. Unfortunately most still require a license to do so, a throwback to the Jim Crow and Progressive eras, but a handful of states have instituted full-on Constitutional Carry, and there are movements building to do the same in many others, including this one. Gun ownership is starting to increase, and Americans are starting to hold much more pro-gun views. It is actually getting to be pretty hard to get elected to office with an anti-gun stance in most places in this country. And of course we at Project Appleseed are working hard to restore our heritage of marksmanship! [/QUOTE]
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