Over the past 50 years, a wide-ranging, well-funded political, cultural, and legal revisionism effort has been undertaken to erase much of the United States' history and culture of the gun and the Second Amendment.
I'll ignore Kristof's partisan contentions about firearm violence, gun control, and the National Rifle Association's lobbying, fundraising and scoring-much of it highly debatable-to point out three of the misleading historical assertions he embraces.
Second, the idea that "Gun control laws were ubiquitous" in the 19th century is the work of politically motivated historians who cobble together every minor local restriction they can find in an attempt to create the impression that gun control was the norm.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the N.R.A. favored tighter gun laws, and its president, Karl Frederick, said that the carrying of weapons 'should be sharply restricted and only under license.
' In 1934, the United States helped pioneer modern gun laws with the National Firearms Act, with the blessings of the N.R.A., and came close to banning handguns.
By the time the Gun Control Act of 1968 was proposed-a law that established a system for federally licensed gun dealers and set some restrictions on certain classes of firearms-the NRA was more involved.
Many of today's gun control advocates like to point to the "Cincinnati revolt" as the moment when a small group of radicals took over the movement, undermining true gun owners, who weren't interested in politics.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/30/new-york-times-botches-history-with-of-gun/
I'll ignore Kristof's partisan contentions about firearm violence, gun control, and the National Rifle Association's lobbying, fundraising and scoring-much of it highly debatable-to point out three of the misleading historical assertions he embraces.
Second, the idea that "Gun control laws were ubiquitous" in the 19th century is the work of politically motivated historians who cobble together every minor local restriction they can find in an attempt to create the impression that gun control was the norm.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the N.R.A. favored tighter gun laws, and its president, Karl Frederick, said that the carrying of weapons 'should be sharply restricted and only under license.
' In 1934, the United States helped pioneer modern gun laws with the National Firearms Act, with the blessings of the N.R.A., and came close to banning handguns.
By the time the Gun Control Act of 1968 was proposed-a law that established a system for federally licensed gun dealers and set some restrictions on certain classes of firearms-the NRA was more involved.
Many of today's gun control advocates like to point to the "Cincinnati revolt" as the moment when a small group of radicals took over the movement, undermining true gun owners, who weren't interested in politics.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/30/new-york-times-botches-history-with-of-gun/
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