Mark Dill's blog

Just after the New Year in 1909, January 3 to be exact, the Indianapolis Star published the attached article concerning gun control. While there were no assault weapons aside from Gatling guns the focus was on the ready availability of easily concealed pistols. The logic of this argument was that if such lethal weapons were not so readily available many of the murders of the time would not have been commited. Specific examples of such crimes that had occurred recently are cited.