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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zzpat who wrote (53085)	1/21/2018 11:08:04 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363520

(Gov) Raygun was right about guns, but not necessarily for the right reason. . Don Mulford, a GOP assemblyman who represented Oakland, responded to the Black Panther police patrols in 1967 with a bill to strip Californians of the right to openly carry firearms.... Mulford’s legislation, which became known as the “Panthers Bill,” passed with the support of the National Rifle Association, which apparently believed that the whole “good guy with a gun” thing didn’t apply to black people. California Gov. Ronald Reagan (R), who would later campaign for president as a steadfast defender of the Second Amendment, signed the bill into law. huffingtonpost.com Members of the Black Panthers hold guns during the group’s protest at the California Assembly in May 1967.