I'm interested in finding photos of guns in the hands of the Black Panthers.

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/BPP.htm

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/apantherinafrica/special_photo.html

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/apantherinafrica/about.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15280248/

http://www.robgoodlatte.com/2006/05/02/grab-the-gun-and-lock-the-door/

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane1019

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?m=2006&w=24

just come to houston, everytime the N.B.P. marches here in Houston, they carry shotties that I see... Quanell X is the leader of that group.

According to the link Car Knocker posted (this one in particular: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15280248/ ) the man pictured carried a .45 Colt Automatic pistol. Yes a 1911. And Huey is carrying a shotgun.

Read the caption of the picture.

2nd one down looks like an Argy FMK, but it wasn't produced until the early 70's.

http://www.simonov.net/editorial.htm Just scrole down a bit.
<img src="http://www.simonov.net/images/NBP.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />

Ah man. The Black Panthers own. Too bad COINTELPRO happened and messed them up. I dont totally agree with some of their more socialist policies, but they make the NRA look like Brady Campaign as far as gun rights are concerned.

Just out of curiosity, why are you looking for pics of panthers with guns? Are you writing a book or researching a thesis or something?

On a different note, those pics from the Washington State Archives (plexreticles link) of Elmer Dixon were particularly cool.

Do a search for "Oakland Black Panthers" and "Black Panthers in Sacramento". Oakland was where their organization originated, and the Panthers marched on the California State Capitol while armed with long guns, back in the 1960's. There may also be some photos in the LAPD archives, for there was a big shoot-out with the Panthers in the late 1960's.

jlbraun, cool. I can see your point because I found it interesting looking at some of these pictures myself!

Oakland was where their organization originated

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Whats up with Oakland? Didn't the Hells Angels start there as well?

No, Fontana, CA.

Another group that might interest you from that era is the White Panthers. Here's the Wikipedia entry. When I lived in SF they were well known, though they originated in Detroit (anyone remember MC5?). They were an acid-head utopian New Left group of mostly whites modeled after the Black Panthers, and their ideas look pretty silly in retrospect, but they were very active around RKBA. They collected signatures and ran a recall against Dianne Feinstein over the issue of gun control in 1984. Unfortunately, it backfired, and she emerged more popular than she was before the recall, and the rest is history.

It's instructive to remember that gun control in California started with conservative politicians scared of leftist radicals. Ronald Reagan was the most gun-grabbing governor in California history. Feinstein was also a relatively conservative SF pol, very allied with downtown business and development interests, uniformly loathed by the left. Just goes to show that authoritarian politicians of all stripes favor gun control if they feel the greatest threat is from their ideological enemies. That's why gun control today is mostly in the domain of Dems and leftists.

The reaction to Black Panthers carrying guns openly around Oakland is what started modern gun control in California. Before 1967 you could carry any gun openly or concealed if no round was in the chamber, without permit. Seeing the Panthers with their shotguns made a lot of white people VERY nervous and the Mulford Act passed the CA legislature that year.

It was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan. As I have always said, gun control is really about keeping guns out of the hands of 'certain' people.

More photos:
everyone's favorite

He wore the leather jacket before Shaft

The laws enacted proved the very point the Black Panthers were trying to make.

I would suggest renting the movie "Panther."

There was a great scene that went something like this:

Officer: Why do you have a gun?

BP: To protect me from you.

Officer: Does that shotgun have a shell chambered?

BP: *Racks Shotgun* It does now.

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I would suggest renting the movie "Panther."

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Thanks, Tecumseh. I'll have to look for that one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114084/