....sensible gun control:


“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting,
for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an
AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of
a home.�

~Ronald Reagan, at his birthday celebration in 1989.

As governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford Act, which
prohibited the carrying of firearms on your person, in your vehicle, and
in any public place or on the street, and he also signed off on a 15-day
waiting period for firearm purchases. “There’s no reason why on the
street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons,� Reagan said
at the time, according to Salon.com.

In 1986 as president, he signed into law the Firearm Owners Protection
Act, which “banned ownership of any fully automatic rifles that were not
already registered on the day the law was signed.�

After leaving the presidency, he supported the passage of the Brady bill
that established by federal law a nationwide, uniform standard of a
7-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns to enable background
checks on prospective buyers.

In 1991 Reagan wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times stating his
support for the Brady Bill and noted that if the Brady Bill had been in
effect earlier, he never would have been shot. He also urged then
President H.W. Bush to drop his opposition to the bill and lobbied other
members of Congress to support the bill.

In 1994 Reagan wrote to Congress urging them to listen to the American
public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the
further manufacture of military-style assault weapons.