How the 1930's Gangsters Changed Our Gun LawsAnd Why Today’s Mass Shooters Require Similar ActionsBonnie & Clyde lay dead in their stolen Ford V-8 after a police ambush, May 23, 1934. It was just one of several bloody episodes during the 1930s where police officers were outgunned by gangsters, whose weapons of choice were powerful, deadly machine guns and other automatic weapons. Criminals like Bonnie and Clyde, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, “Baby Face” Nelson, John Dillinger and George “Machine Gun” Kelly were crime machines, robbing, killing and kidnapping folks. The 1994 law though, unfortunately had a sunset provision that meant it would expire in ten years unless it was renewed by legislators. As of June 10, 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, 254 people in America have died in mass shootings.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2022 09:29 UTC