We are currently studying the subject of gun laws in school and my assignment was to research how JFK's assassination affected the gun laws in the US, specifically what people thought about them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
probably a dozen firearm bills were introduced in the wake of JFK’s assassination. gun control laws stirred gun rights activists such as the NRA to respond. Thomas Dodd introduced a ban on mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. after Robbert Kennedy was killed, LBJ signed the Gun Control Act in 1968 which did the same as what Dodd introduced but also prohibited most felons, drug users, and the mentally incompetent from purchasing firearms. at the time of JFK’s assassination, 14 states required a permit to carry a pistol or keep it in their homes.