Reagan Carried a Gun
A 38, apparently. Which begs the important question of which brand.
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June 16th, 2015 at 6:10 pm
A Colt SAA in .38-40 like J.B. Books(John Wayne) in the “Shootist”. With a 5 1/2 inch barrel.
June 16th, 2015 at 7:47 pm
Single, unnamed source quoted by a guy selling a book, and comes as a surprise to people who were there.
Color me skeptical.
June 17th, 2015 at 10:30 am
Reagan had a whole bunch of guns. There’s a beautifully engraved S&W Model 29 in an 8-inch barrel with ivory grips, and what looks to be a Civil War cap and ball, on display in his Library, for a couple of examples. It’s entirely possible that he kept some around to look at and that he also transported them from the White House to Camp David or California on occasion.
June 17th, 2015 at 12:58 pm
another “guns for me, but not for thee” politician.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022209608
June 17th, 2015 at 1:16 pm
Reagan was a two-faced hypocrite. Either that, or he was not a ‘law-abiding citizen’:
“There’s no reason why a law-abiding person should be carrying a gun on the street.”
– California Gov. Ronald Reagan, when Black Panthers carried rifles into the State House.
June 17th, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Mr Wizard, that’s almost verbatim what Bill Clinton just said in a recent interview. Reagan is extoled as the icon for conservatism among Republicans, but it begs the question: what is it that they are trying to conserve?? Gosh, the Black Panthers THEN we’re doing what ” Tea Party” Constitutionalists and libertarians, exercising their LAWFUL rights. Reagan was just being the typical reactionary politicians and I’ve heard some conservatives justify some gun control because Reagan did it. It reminds me ofThomas Jefferson saying ” it’s a dangerous delusion to trust men of our choice…bind them down by the chains of the Constitution”!!!!
June 17th, 2015 at 4:48 pm
Black Panthers were carrying legally, but their extortion racket was another thing entirely.
Hey, why wouldn’t you want to donate to the armed black gang members a small weekly amount from your business to buy small black kids some school books, rather than have that same bunch of armed thugs return to re-educate you about black kids’ needs, as you’re closing up shop later?
June 17th, 2015 at 11:21 pm
An imperfect politician…(how redundant is that?)
But RR is directly responsible for the scales falling from my eyes, and the eyes of millions who had been blind to the incremental encroachment of socialism into what had been the democratic party of, by, and for American citizens.
And it is specious to compare then to now; I love thinking that right-thinking America-loving, God-fearing man might have been toting, thumbing his nose at laws that he might have been a party to making, but showing by example that they are made to be broken, defied and changed.
The Greatest Generation saved the world once, Reagan almost single-handedly saved it again, but both were temporary reprieves from our own tendency toward self-hatred and pacifism. This time we may be beyond saving, but at least Ronnie’s soul can rest in peace in the knowledge that he did his best in giving us a another chance.