As Adam Winkler of UCLA’s law school has noted, a movement comprising the Ku Klux Klan and those Democrats who sought to thwart the gains of the Civil War “began with gun control at the very top of its agenda.” -Charles C. W. Cooke 
The left-wing writer Robert Sherrill put it even more bluntly in his classic anti-gun tome The Saturday Night Special (1973): “The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to control blacks.” -Charles C. W. Cooke
Speaking in favor of the proposed Gun Control Act in 1968, the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, griped that Americans, “especially the non-white, are buying guns right and left.” “Someone,” Daley thought, “ought to do something,”... -Charles C. W. Cooke
Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“History is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event.
After the Civil War, the Confederate States enacted the Black Codes. These codes forbid the new free blacks from having guns, leaving them vulnerable to organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, which pushed for these laws.
The Republicans in Congress pushed back with various measures: the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1870. President Grant, who went after the KKK with both barrels, served as president of the NRA.
"I want to thank the Lord for our Constitution. I also want to thank the NRA for
its legacy. The National Rifle Association was started, founded by, religious
leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan. They would
raise money, buy arms, show the freed slaves how to use those arms and protect
their families. God bless you. Many of us probably wouldn't be here today if it
wasn't for the NRA."
"Let me just briefly say that gun control for Black Americans, we know that gun
control has ultimately been about people control. It sprouts from racist soil.
Be it after or during the infamous Dred Scott case, where a black man's humanity
was not recognized... And the beauty about some racists is that sometimes
they're blatantly honest. And the racist Chief Justice Taney said, we cannot
allow the law to recognize the humanity of this individual because he would be
able to keep and bear arms. What a lot of Democratic controlled segregationist
governments after the Civil War attempted to deny black men and women their
freedom, they instituted Black Codes. Largely to deny the Second Amendment
from newly freed slaves."
"Right after the Emancipation Proclamation, what was going on down in the
southern states, it's very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black
people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansmen who were
murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box. So I think
history is ripe with examples... there's a correlation, a direct correlation
between gun control and black people control."
"This current administration is far from the truth. This agenda is becoming more
and more obvious to all. That it's a distraction. It's a reason. It's an excuse
to carry out an ideology that is more evident every day and every week that goes
by. That it is anti-American. And when you touch the Second Amendment, you
can't become more anti-American. Because America would not be without her guns.
And guns would not be necessary without her God. We call upon Americans, both
black, white, hispanics, Republicans, Democrats, Independents and even those who
are not of our faith to agree up on this: without God, without guns, and without
the Constitution, America's end will come with haste. For when they change our
Constitution, they will take our guns. And when they take our guns, they will
also seek to take our God. That's when Americans will fight back.
In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns. Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “[I]t would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
On Friday, the hosts of Fox News’ “The Five” blasted liberal filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore for suggesting that white gun owners are motivated by racial fears when buying firearms. Even the left-leaning Juan Williams found Moore’s comments “unnecessary.” He said adding race into the conversation for no reason distracts from the “reality” that gun control was first implemented as a way to stop blacks from owning guns.
Government, Guns, Racism, Regulation
A coalition of black lawyers says New York state’s concealed carry restrictions are racist, and they are backing a historic challenge to the restrictions the Supreme Court will hear on Nov. 3...
Black Attorneys of Legal Aid filed an amicus brief on behalf of 10 New York public defender offices and 3 legal assistance groups complementing that effort, arguing the rule has racist origins and continuing discriminatory effects.
"We represent hundreds of indigent people whom New York criminally charges for exercising their right to keep and bear arms," the brief reads.
"Virtually all our clients … are Black or Hispanic. And that is no accident. New York enacted its firearm licensing requirements to criminalize gun ownership by racial and ethnic minorities. That remains the effect of its enforcement by police and prosecutors today."
Liberal, Guns, Racism, Narrative
Before the Civil War ended, State “Slave Codes” prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed “Black Codes.” They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford to uphold slavery.
The last time black ppl were prohibited from owning guns wasnt real great for us. I'll be hanging on to mine, thankyouverymuch #GunControl
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) October 4, 2017
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
Guns have historically protected Americans from white supremacists, just as gun control has historically protected white supremacists from the Americans they terrorize.
One month after the Confederate surrender in 1865, Frederick Douglass urged federal action to stop state and local infringement of the right to arms. Until this was accomplished, Douglass argued, “the work of the abolitionists is not finished.”
-David Kopel and Joseph Greenlee