A resolution memorializing Congress to exempt pistols from the interstate commerce clause and a bill to prohibit the delivery of these weapons was adopted in the House.
The tremendous traffic in firearms is reported from all sides. Incidental to the debate on the Milliken bill, aimed at the Ku Klux Klan, several days ago, it was said on the floor that in Durham county the sheriff gave as his opinion the statement that 2,000 of these weapons had been bought by black men int that county. Representative Warren of Beaufort declared that the postmaster at Washington believes that from 300 and 400 pistols were delivered by him last year. Nearly all of them went to negroes. Representative Everett of Durham county, quoting Sheriff Harwood, seemed to have no doubt that the negroes had been moved to arms by the growing dread of the Ku Klux. Whatever causes exist, legislators everywhere seem to agree that there is a big business in weapons.
From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1923
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