|”If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legisla-
tion. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying — that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the north- eastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, and the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 — establishes the repeated, complete, and inevitable failure of gun laws to control crime.” –Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) quoted from “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” Report of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1982, p. vii.