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In 1718, James Puckle show his invention of a new gun called the "Puckle Gun." The Puckle Gun fired nine shots per minute not like when the standard soldier's musket is loaded and can only fired tree times per minute.

In 1851, the British army paid Minie 20,000 pounds for his self-expanding bullet for the new 1851 Enfield rifle.

In 1879, the box magazine was patented by Lee. It was the most popular type of magazine in the modern rifles and handguns. Pointed bullets are allows to be used and got more accurate and better at long ranges. It could be build into gun or removable.

In 1881, Hiram Maxim's friend, told him, "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with." Hiram Maxim was the one who invented the Maxim Machine Gun and the Maxim Silencer.

In the 1960s, the NRA made a new federal gun laws. President John F. Kennedy bought his gun through a mail-order ad in the NRA's American Rifleman magazine. When the final version of the Gun Control Act was adopted in 1968, Franklin stood behind the legislation.

Frederick had a model law and it has three basic elements. People has to have a permit to be able to carry a handgun in public. You only get a permit if you are a suitable person with a good reason for carrying a gun. It required gun dealers to report to law enforcement every sale of a handgun. The law imposed a two-day waiting period on handgun sales.

What drove the black militants to visit the California capitol with loaded weapons in band was **OPPOSITION TO GUN CONTROL.** The Black Panther Party had been formed six months earlier in Oakland. Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement. In Newton and Seale's view, the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect and serve the public police.

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