Okay so obvious history negligence aside
A lot of the first gun laws were explicitly race based. The earliest example being in 1640s Virginia banning all African Americans (Slave and Freeman) from carrying weapons including clubs. Also a separate law around the same time in Virginia prohibiting Native Americans and specifically people of mixed ancestry as well from owning guns.
We see a lot of the same until post 14th Ammendment, where in 1870 Tennessee passed a ban on the sale of handguns except the more expensive Army and Navy model handguns that the newly freed African American Citizens largely could not afford. A lot of modern gun laws still fall to this basic problem of not making it harder for the wrong people to get a gun, but rather just increasing economic barriers.
1875 High Court (United States v. Cruikshank) rules the government can’t protect African Americans from being disarmed by the KKK
1893 Alabama placed “extremely heavy business and/or transactional taxes’” on the sale of handguns in an attempt “to put handguns out of the reach of blacks and poor whites.” Which obviously isn’t just racist but also classist.
I could go on but instead I’ll just leave my source and also encourage researching the Black Panthers.
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