Gun Control laws weren't discriminatory?

That's the claim of many anti's. Besides all the Jim Crow Laws , here's a piece from 1905 on NY's Sullivan Act:

“… [The proposed gun control] measure would prove corrective and salutary in a city filled with immigrants and evil communications, floating from the shores of Italy and Austria-Hungary. New York police reports frequently testify to the fact that the Italian and other south Continental gentry here are acquainted with the pocket pistol, and while drunk or merrymaking will use it quite as handily as the stiletto, and with more deadly effect. It is hoped that this treacherous and distinctly outlandish mode of settling disputes may not spread to corrupt the native good manners of the community …”

Keep the guns out of all those drunken Dago's hands. Sounds kind of like Alex when he claims all the "gun nuts" are afraid of blacks and Mexicans. Seems it's his side that is and has to resort to advocating racial fears.

Thanks to NYSRPA