Re: Anti-Native American gun control laws

[Dave Hardy]

The Arizona statutes against selling guns to indians (with exception for shotguns and birdshot ammo) were included in its 1939 code. They were left out of the present, 1956, codification, the Arizona Revised Statutes. I haven't run the session laws between those years to see if they were on the books until 1956 or perhaps were repealed between those dates.

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From: prot...@aol.com
Sent: Oct 1, 2010 1:24 PM
To: rkess...@sulross.edu, firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Anti-Native American gun control laws

Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed (1984), 234-35:

 

While legal discrimination against blacks in respect to arms was abolished during Reconstruction, the sale of arms and ammunition to "hostile" Indians remained a prohibition. E.g., 17 Stat. 457, 42d Cong., 3d Sess., ch. 138 (1873). See also Sioux Nation of Indians v. United States, 601 F.2d 1157, 1166 (Ct. Cl. 1979), affd, 448 U.S. 371 (1980): "Since the Army had taken from the Sioux their weapons and horses, the alternative to capitulation to the government's demands was starvation...." The federal government's special restrictions on selling firearms to native Americans were abolished finally in 1979. Wahington Post, 6 Jan. 1979, §A, at 11, col. 1.

 

Steve

 

In a message dated 10/1/2010 3:59:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rkess...@sulross.edu writes:

Can anyone provide any leads or info. on U.S. firearms laws or practices that discriminated against Native Americans? 

Thanks,

 Ray Kessler

Prof. of Criminal Justice

 

P.S.  Please feel free to check out my blog at

http://crimelawandjustice.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

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