Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University law school and I have a new paper out: "Gun Control: Political Fears Trump Crime Control," Maine Law Review, 61:1[2009] 57-81.
This started out as a paper that I wrote for a British history class when I was in grad school about the objectives of the British Firearms Act of 1920. As the abstract says:
As the debate over the 1976 District of Columbia gun ban demonstrates, "gun control" often covers for a hidden agenda. British Cabinet papers declassified in 1969-70 demonstrate that contrary to claims made in Parliamentary debates, the intent of the Firearms Act 1920 was not to reduce or prevent crime, but to prevent a feared Bolshevik revolution in Britain. Direct statements by members of the Cabinet demonstrate an intent to mislead the public about their objectives.The final version is slightly different than the version that you can download at the abstract. As you may be aware, when a law review does final citation check, they insist that every statement of fact (even some that might be considered up there with "water is wet") must be cited to a verifiable source. It's irritating, but it generally makes the final paper stronger--and in a number of cases, when a couple of sources that I had no longer had copies of could not be found, I found even better sources to cite for those same facts.
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