Regarding President Kennedy's assassination and gun control

Regarding President Kennedy's assassination and gun control:




 "In the wake of the assassination the pressure for such legislation (small arms control) seemed irresistible: A Gallup poll revealed that 8 out of 10 Americans favored new laws requiring police permits of weapon buyers. Robert Kennedy asked Congress to outlaw the mail order traffic, supportive mail engulfed the Hill, and in the weeks after the funeral Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut introduced a sensible bill to ban mail order sales, bar weapons from.abroad unsuitable for sporting use, forbid sales to people under twenty one, and require all purchasers to identity themselves so police could later trace them.
 The American Bar Association endorsed it and was ignored. The Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons pointed out "After all, cars have to be registered and drivers licensed" and was unheard.




 Indeed, though 18 such measures were introduced on the Hill , none of the gun laws went off.




 The United States remained the only modern nation in the world without firm regulation of the sale and use of firearms -- Oswald couldn't have assassinated Kennedy in Russia -- and in 1964 some 600,000 cheap firearms were brought into the country."




 Death of a President November 1963, Epilogue Legend, pages 631-632, author William Manchester (1st edition, 1967)