LIFE Magazine’s 1967 Anti-Second Amendment Editorial

By Dean Weingarten

I bought my first pistol in 1967: a Colt Woodsman sport and target model. I purchased it over the counter, across state lines, for cash. My father drove me to the gun store; I was 16 years old and didn’t have a driver’s license. It cost $60 including a holster. The Colt’s served me well over the decades and half way around the world. I mention this bit of history to keep it from being flushed down the memory hole by the civilian disarmament industrial complex. They would have Americans believe that guns are “easier to buy than a book.” The exact opposite is true . . .

In 1965, you could buy guns, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, through the mail. Pistols required a federal license to mail order. The license cost a dollar. And gun rights were fighting for their lives.

In 1967, “inspired” by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin other King Jr., fueled by political unrest and the bloody conflict over civil rights, the media cartel mounted a full-court press to convince the public that it was time to enact “serious” gun control. Not just in the South, where racist gun control …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns