Gun Rights: The Issue That Switched From Left Wing To Right Wing

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Credit MOHAI/Seattle P.I. Collection/Tom Barlet

Black Panthers demonstrating at Seattle's federal courthouse, 1969.

Back in the 1960s, it was urban radicals who fought for the right to bear arms, and it was largely white conservatives who fought for tighter gun control. How times have changed.

The forgotten history of the gun rights debate, today on KUOW.

Other stories heard on KUOW Presents, Tuesday, February 12:

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Credit Oakland Museum of California/Eldridge Cleaver

Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, seated with gun and spear.

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