Another mail order house has announced a ban on pistols. This Chicago company, one of the largest in America, states that it has discontinued the sale of every form of firearms.
“We feel that in stopping absolutely the sale of firearms we are doing something for the protection of the public,” says the chairman of the Board, calling attention to the fact that superintendents of the police and newspapers have urged stopping the sale of revolvers as the most effective means of decreasing crime.
The action of this mail order house is a step in the right direction, and if followed by many other large houses will probably result in some decrease in the number of pistols carried by the citizens of the country.
But there will always be some business concern ready to sell pistols or anything else unless there is a strict law against it. In North Carolina pistols can be sold only to a person who gets permission from a county officer to buy such a weapon, yet the government acts as an agent by carrying pistols through the mail. It is safe to say, we believe, that not half of the pistols owned in Cabarrus county now were purchased in the county. Most of them came from mail order houses and the government guarantees to the houses delivery of the pistols as it does delivery of any other mail. This is a matter in which the federal government should take drastic action.
From page 4, the editorial page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Nov. 24, 1924
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