By and large liberals have opposed guns, socialists have supported them. Want more evidence? In the USSR not only were hunting weapons allowed but all students were given pre-military training. There was a class called Basic Military Training. For grades 9 and 10. Teacher would usually be a retired military officer. One would have to take apart an AK (model depending on the military standard of the current year) and learn to do it within 30 seconds. They would also be taught to fire small-caliber rifles either semi-auto or bolt action on a range, that could be 25-100 meters. I doubt there was ever something like Columbine in the USSR and accidental deaths by guns either. (Meanwhile in the enlightened Britain one has to register a goddamn flare gun and/or antique fire-arm or have it rendered inoperable).
In fact the State encouraged civilian gun use and even awarded good marksmanship with the Stalin-era award, Voroshilov's Sharpshooter, awarded to over 700,000 civilians.
Also notice how the wiki claim on gun control in the Soviet Union has messed up sourcing, talking about gun control beginning in 1929 while sourcing decrees of 1918 and 1920 (When the USSR was not even in existence yet). “Policemen were responsible for gun control,” writes Katherine Bliss Eaton in Daily Life in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004): "Private citizens and institutions could own hunting weapons if they had police permission and registered their guns at the local station house. The militia could confiscate weapons and ammunition from people who showed signs of dangerously irresponsible behavior." Sounds reasonable to me. Hunting was common-place and was regulated only wtihin the prevention of harming population, (Now take a look at Russia with its capitalism, wonderful over there, isn't it). http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-30/news/vw-25513_1_fur
Not to mention sport's use which were managed by DOSAAF, which is why soviet snipers were some of the world's best.
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By and large liberals have opposed guns, socialists have supported them.
Want more evidence? In the USSR not only were hunting weapons allowed but all students were given pre-military training. There was a class called Basic Military Training. For grades 9 and 10. Teacher would usually be a retired military officer. One would have to take apart an AK (model depending on the military standard of the current year) and learn to do it within 30 seconds. They would also be taught to fire small-caliber rifles either semi-auto or bolt action on a range, that could be 25-100 meters. I doubt there was ever something like Columbine in the USSR and accidental deaths by guns either. (Meanwhile in the enlightened Britain one has to register a goddamn flare gun and/or antique fire-arm or have it rendered inoperable).
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82-00047R000100160006-6.pdf
In fact the State encouraged civilian gun use and even awarded good marksmanship with the Stalin-era award, Voroshilov's Sharpshooter, awarded to over 700,000 civilians.
Also notice how the wiki claim on gun control in the Soviet Union has messed up sourcing, talking about gun control beginning in 1929 while sourcing decrees of 1918 and 1920 (When the USSR was not even in existence yet). “Policemen were responsible for gun control,” writes Katherine Bliss Eaton in Daily Life in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004): "Private citizens and institutions could own hunting weapons if they had police permission and registered their guns at the local station house. The militia could confiscate weapons and ammunition from people who showed signs of dangerously irresponsible behavior." Sounds reasonable to me. Hunting was common-place and was regulated only wtihin the prevention of harming population, (Now take a look at Russia with its capitalism, wonderful over there, isn't it).
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-30/news/vw-25513_1_fur
Not to mention sport's use which were managed by DOSAAF, which is why soviet snipers were some of the world's best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSAAF