Bob Blaylock
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Actually, one of the first (1911) was explicitly aimed at Italians.Gun control in this country had a very overtly racist origin. The earliest gun control laws, with much support from the Ku Klux Klan, were aimed specifically at blacks.
The Sullivan Act, crafted by and named after a violent criminal gangster-turned corrupt politician, came long after other laws pushed by the Ku Klux Klan to disarm former slaves and descendants thereof.