Reply #81: 50 years wasn't NEAR far enough back..................

[one-eyed fat man]

The Seventy-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1935, during the first two years of the first administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President of the Senate: John Nance Garner
President pro tempore of the Senate: Key Pittman
Speaker of the House: Henry T. Rainey
Members: 435 Representatives; 96 Senators; 5 Territorial Representatives
House Majority: Democratic
Senate Majority: Democratic

The original proposal included regulation of handguns and the establishment of a National Registry of all gun owners. The "watered down" version that did pass and was signed with great fanfare by FDR became known as the National Firearms Act of 1934. Another first to which the Party can lay claim. The law was passed as a TAX measure in an attempt to avoid Second Amendment questions.

(Reading the floor debate in the Congressional Record may be harmful to your blood pressure)