Posted October 22, 2019 1:30 pm by Comments

By Logan Metesh

President Johnson signs the GCA into law, 10/22/1968.

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- On October 22, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law. Initially conceived in 1963 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the idea really gained momentum after the 1968 assassinations of both civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

President Kennedy was killed with a rifle purchased through the mail; King was killed with a rifle purchased by a convicted felon, and Senator Kennedy was killed with a revolver purchased by an alien (non-citizen) of the United States.

In the years between 1963 and 1968, there was plenty of debate surrounding gun control and the Second Amendment. The most notable quote from this timeframe came from now-deceased Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) during hearings before the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in 1965.

Rep. Dingell said, “Consider the fact that we now have on the lawbooks of this nation over 20,000 laws governing the sale, distribution and use of firearms.”

With that in mind, Dingell’s hope was to get people to consider the staggering amount of laws already on the books, and what, exactly, would adding one more …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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