See at JPFO site the full text of the National Firearms Act of 1934. In case anyone wonders why, it haunts us to this very day. If anyone else has posted this elsewhere or here, excuse me.
I believe that the racist elements of gun control are all to well known, though I expect that history aside, some would deny them. Additionally, poor whites were hit too, as with stipulations in the laws of that era requiring the purchase of what were then the more expensive handguns, the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, for instance. I note, in passing, that this aspect of the thing might ring familiar, with respect to legislation in recent years that would try to eliminate sale and manufacture of the so-called Saturday night Special, the definition of which being remarkably "elastic", in one instance including the famous model 1911 pistol, most often found in caliber 45ACP. As memory serves, this flight of fancy originating in, surprise, surprise, California.
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