Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumNixon wished for total handgun ban
WASHINGTON (AP) Few presidents in modern times have been as interested in gun control as Richard Nixon, of all people. He proposed ridding the market of Saturday night specials, contemplated banning handguns altogether and refused to pander to gun owners by feigning interest in their weapons.
Several previously unreported Oval Office recordings and White House memos from the Nixon years show a conservative president who at times appeared willing to take on the National Rifle Association, a powerful gun lobby then as now, even as his aides worried about the political ramifications.
"I don't know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house," Nixon said in a taped conversation with aides. "The kids usually kill themselves with it and so forth." He asked why "can't we go after handguns, period?"
Nixon went on: "I know the rifle association will be against it, the gun makers will be against it." But "people should not have handguns." He laced his comments with obscenities, as was typical.
More at http://www.chron.com/news/article/AP-Enterprise-Nixon-wished-for-total-handgun-ban-4341724.php .
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(56,912 posts)GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... when even Nixon wouldn't try it?
davepc
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gejohnston
(17,502 posts)--- William Satfire (originally from a New York Times column), Los Angeles Daily News, June 15, 1999, P. 15.
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ileus
(15,396 posts)glad he didn't get his wish.
He was living in the dark ages of personal defense...hopefully we'll never return to the victim first attitude toward firearms for self defense.