The Secret History of Guns By Adam Winkler

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this is some wild stuff.


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/3/?single_page=true


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It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement.

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Some of this matériel came from the federal government: one member claimed he had connections at Camp Pendleton, in Southern California, who would sell the Panthers anything for the right price. One Panther bragged that, if they wanted, they could have bought an M48 tank and driven it right up the freeway.

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“Who in the hell do you think you are?” an officer responded.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?,” Newton replied indignantly. He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

Newton got out of the car, still holding his rifle.

“What are you going to do with that gun?” asked one of the stunned policemen.

“What are you going to do with your gun?,” Newton replied.

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The people who’d witnessed the scene were dumbstruck. Not even Bobby Seale could believe it. Right then, he said, he knew that Newton was the “baddest motherfucker in the world.”

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