The War on Gun Dealers

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In 1968 Congress passed the infamous Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968. The act banned the sale of guns through the mail except to federally licensed dealers. One purpose of the act was to weaken and defund the National Rifle Association. A great deal of advertisement funding for the NRA magazine, The American Rifleman, came from ads for the mail order of firearms.

The mail order of pistols had been regulated since 1927. GCA 1968 banned mail order of rifles and shotguns, guns that were used in only a small percentage of crimes, and created a whole new class of arms, “destructive devices”. Up until 1968, you could order anti-aircraft and anti-tank cannon and ammunition through the mail. Crimes committed with them were nil.

The original act was rejected by Congress in 1966, and by committees in the House and Senate in 1968. In spite of the resistance, President Johnson and rising power of the media cartel rammed the act through on the heals of the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Even though the NRA had no lobbying arm at …Read the Rest

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