An interesting article.

[Magoo]

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A friend forwarded this to me. I'll leave my personal comments aside for a while, but I'm sure many of you folks will find some good reading here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...secret-history-of-guns/8608/?single_page=true

Terrible synopsis: A bit of history (and commentary) on gun legislation and the players involved from the writing of the constitution up to the Heller decision.

 

[camar]

In the 60's I did not agree with the negro activists in Calif., but looking back today I come to agree with their argument about the 2d. Amendment.
The Sullivan Act of 1912 in New York was to restrict the immigrants from exercising their 2d Amendment rights.
The NRA and I parted ways in 1968 with the Gun Control Act. The NRA said that they could live with it.
Charleton Heston was on TV in Calif. promoting the ban on magazines that hold over 10rds. Some years after he became the head of the NRA. Remember that he was holding a musket when he said "...from my cold dead hands" or words to that effect.

 

[Heretic]

Yea, I would have been a lot more impressed if he had been holding an M-16.

 

[k-frame]

Long thread here:
Article from The Atlantic - "The secret history of guns"

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=608032

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

closed as duplicate.