New York’s infamous Sullivan law, originally enacted to disarm Southern and Eastern European immigrants who were considered racially inferior and religiously and ideologically suspect, continues to be enforced in a racist and elitist fashion “as the police seldom grant hand gun permits to any but the wealthy or politically influential.”[
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Stefan B. Tahmassebi* citing Tonso, Gun Control: White Man’s Law, REASON, Dec. 1985, at 23-25.
Source: Guns and Racism
