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15 May 2019
In the 1950s, police would return guns to individuals upon their release from prison.

Sheriff Matt Dillon comes to work one day to find a lovable local character sleeping off a wicked drinking binge in the town holding cell. The drunk wakes up, and as he's leaving, Dillon gives him his gun back, which is almost certainly what Alex was referencing when he recently claimed that back in the 50s, the cops would give you your guns back when you got out of prison.

31 May 2017
Charlton Heston spent over $10 million of his own money giving speeches for the Second Amendment.

Even though he was demonized and attacked, he spent over $10 million of his own money. That's not really known, that that's known by inside baseball people. $10 million of his own money in that last decade or so, flying around on a private jet, giving speeches for the Second Amendment. He wasn't paid by the NRA.