(May 2, 2020 at 5:40 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Gun laws were changed after that protest at the insistence of the NRA. Cant have that sort of American with that sort of weapon.
Not only were gun laws changed, it was Reagan that changed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Quote:Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." In a later press conference, Reagan added that the Mulford Act "would work no hardship on the honest citizen.