The strict regulations of the National Firearms Act are compounded by the Gun Control Act of 1968, which prohibits the importation of such firearms, on the auspicies that they are not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.
The halt to exports to the USA in 1968 was dictated by the Gun Control Act of 1968 which was precipitated by Robert Kennedy's assassination involving an Iver Johnson made revolver and signed into law by then President Lyndon Johnson.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was part of President Johnson's Great Society series of programs and was said by many to be spurred into passage by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. It addresses who may not buy or possess guns.
One of the smallest Spanish pistols ever made, it was discontinued due to the US Gun Control Act of 1968.
A 1968 federal gun-control law prohibiting the importation of inexpensive handguns prompted Jennings to enter the firearms business.
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