[nuke rocketeer]

Elenor Roosevelt called them everything but a domestic terrorist. This and several other incidents against entrenched Democrat political machines throughout the South were the catalyst for the Democrat crusade against the 2nd amendment. Before then they were just against blacks being armed. After 1946, it was everyone.

[OneWingedShark]

Really; now that is interesting.
It makes sense though, I've noticed that agents-of-the-government tend to be against anything that would diminish the government's power, but more especially their particular fiefdom (e.g. judges would favor judicial power over the police's civil/executive power if the two were stacked against each other.)