Wasn't it those old folks that gave us the gun laws we've been digging ourselves out from beneath these last couple of decades?
Probably true, because all they had to worry about then was the mid-thirties NFA.
So by the time of the war, that had been "normalized." So it took years for "us" to be aware of the on-going nibbling at those rights to which you refer. Frog in boiling water kind of thing.
It also took years for the lefties to entrench themselves into politics under the euphemisms "progressive" and other camouflage prettied-up sugar-coated names for "communist."
For this olde pharte, the wakeup call came with GCA68, where the word among "gunnies" was, "They'll never pass that. Why it's unconstitutional on the face of it."
But they did. See my signature line.
And now, GCA68 has become "normalized" with most folks.
But not me.
Terry
NFA = National Firearms Act of 193?, forgot date.
GCA68 = Gun Control Act of 1968