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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
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Up to 1975, The NRA had not opposed gun regulations and had not made a fetish of the Second Amendment. It had been founded following the Civil War by a group of former Union Army officers in the North to sponsor marksmanship training and competitions, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes in Loaded, her new deep dive into the origins of the Second Amendment. In 1934, during the Depression, the NRA testified in favor of the first federal gun legislation that sought to keep machine guns way from outlaws, such as the famous Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd, and Chicago gangsters. During testimony, a Congressman asked the NRA witness if the proposed law would violate the Constitution, the witness said he knew of none. |
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| Hmnph. A revisionist's work is never done, it seems... |
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