"in the 1930s, the National Rifle Association’s president Karl Frederick believed the right to own guns was found “in an enlightened public sentiment and in intelligent legislative action. It is not to be found in the Constitution.”
In the 1960s, in the wake of race riots, Republican governor Ronald Reagan saw, “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”
As recently as 1991, former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative Republican and strict judicial constructionist, said that the concept of a constitutionally-protected individual right to bear arms was “one of the biggest pieces of fraud—and I repeat the word fraud—on the American public by a special interest group that I have seen in my lifetime.” "
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Times: the myth of second amendment exceptionalism
