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Generally, to keep guns out of "the wrong hands". However, at different times, the definition of "wrong hands" has been the hands of women, immigrants, Blacks, American Indians, Irish, Chinese, Japanese-Americans, etc. There are more than 20,000 firearms laws in the US now.

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