After three decades of quiescence in the arena of gun control politics, the turmoil of the 1960s unleashed a wave of demand for new gun control legislation. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, prompted the country to focus on the regulation of firearms. Then the urban riots beginning in 1964 and the 1968 assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy fueled an inferno of outrage that demanded congressional action. This inspired this major revision to federal gun laws
The death of John F. Kennedy, who was slaughtered by a mail-ordered weapon that had a place with Lee Harvey Oswald, inspired this major revision to federal gun laws. The subsequent assassinations of Martin Luther King and presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy fueled its quick passage. Permit necessities were extended to incorporate more merchants, and more nitty gritty record keeping was anticipated from them; handgun deals over state lines were confined; the rundown of persons merchants couldn't offer to developed to incorporate those sentenced crimes (with a few special cases), those
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The bill died in the Senate Commerce Committee in 1964, but Senator Dodd reintroduced the bill as Senate Bill 14 in January of 1965. Two months later, he introduced a more restrictive bill, Senate Bill 1592, at the request of the administration, and the political battle over gun control began. Although various members of Congress introduced a variety of gun bills during the period between 1964 and 1968, the Dodd Bill became a generic description for all pending legislation, particularly among opponents of firearms control legislation. Between 1938 and 1965, Congress had displayed little discernable interest in gun control legislation; however, public opinion altered the policy dynamics within Congress over the next four years and opened the policy