***I used to ride through town with my .22 rifle on the handlebars of my bicycle. I’m saddened that my Republic has gone.***
The destruction of gun rights began back in 1963 when John Kennedy was killed. Five years later Bobby Kennedy was murdered and the USA, led by the news media, went into an anti-gun hysteria fit.
If you weren’t around in 1968, go to your library and pull up some of the old publications like LIFE, TIME, newspapers and see how this vicious the anti-gun ravings were and what kind of hell gun owners went through.
I was around in 1963. I said I’d completed almost 73 orbits. That would make me born in the first half of the last century. The trouble really started with the NFA in 1934.