After the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, he’s quoted saying, "There's no more exhilarating feeling, than being shot at without result." Reagan jokingly echoed Winston Churchill.
The tumultuous 1960s in America had seen multiple assassinations, including President JFK, Malcolm X, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These atrocities garnered political and public desire to suppress such criminal acts, one such result being The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA) (Pub. L. No. 90-615, S 102, 82 Stat. 1214 [codified at 18 U.S.C.A. SS 921 - 9281). This act repealed the Federal Firearms Act and replaced it with increased federal control over firearms. Title I of the act requires the federal licensing of anyone manufacturing or selling guns or ammunition. Title I also prohibits the interstate mail-order sale of guns and ammunition, the sale of guns to minors or persons with criminal records, and the importation of certain firearms. Title Il of the act imposes the same restrictions on other destructive devices, such as bombs, grenades, and other explosive materials.
JFK was assassinated by an Italian military surplus rifle in 1963. The Carcano was purportedly purchased through mail-order from American Rifleman magazine (NRA Publications). The Senate Subcommittee on
Juvenile Delinquency Chairman Thomas J Dodd introduced, Senate Bill 1975 in 1963, "A Bill to Regulate the Interstate Shipment of Firearms," and Senate Bill 1592 in 1965, "A Bill to Amend the Federal Firearms Act of 1938." Although most opposed at first, after these subsequent murders they ultimately become the GCA.
Dr. King was assassinated by a 30-06 rifle, obtained with false identification. Malcolm X was killed with a "sawed-off" shotgun. Robert Kennedy's assassin had broken three laws just possessing the firearm he used. So more prohibiting gun control laws must ensue in accordance to our governing bodies battle against crime. Crimes abated? Possibly. Revenue generated and collected, definitively.
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