In 1879 after the infamous uprising of 1878, in which a group of racist ex-confederates launched a series of brutal attacks against federal employees, black people, people sympathetic to the plight of ex-slaves and northerners, leaving 22,000 dead (as well as over two thousand army soldiers) congress narrowly passed the 16th amendment, which repealed the previous Second Amendment to the US constitution and allowed government the authority to regulate weaponry.
It was strange to the modern day American to consider that once the United States had a constitutional clause which said that the government could not put limits on people arming themselves. Indeed, often times there were US Citizens who owned weapons more advanced than the army did such as Henry Rifles while the US army used single shot Trapdoor Springfield Rifles! But imagine what the US would be like if people could go down to a gun store and buy not just a .22 sporting revolver or varmit rifle, but a fully automatic Springfield 1956 or SR-76 without so much as a background check!
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It was strange to the modern day American to consider that once the United States had a constitutional clause which said that the government could not put limits on people arming themselves. Indeed, often times there were US Citizens who owned weapons more advanced than the army did such as Henry Rifles while the US army used single shot Trapdoor Springfield Rifles! But imagine what the US would be like if people could go down to a gun store and buy not just a .22 sporting revolver or varmit rifle, but a fully automatic Springfield 1956 or SR-76 without so much as a background check!
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