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exabrialtoday at 5:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

Unbelievable that a right like firearm ownership was ever gated like this.


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asdfftoday at 6:28 PM

It isn't that unbelievable. This came in direct response to the Black Panthers armed protest in Sacramento in 1967. The law came in 1968. You have to remember that power then, and still now in a lot of ways, was racist.

m3047today at 6:45 PM

Ah, the 1960s.