Philstines

Having recently become the first King of Israel, Saul was beginning his first tentative steps to end the oppression of Israel by the Philistines.

But there was a problem.

19 Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” 20 But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle; 21 and the charge for a sharpening was a pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads. 22 So it came about, on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan .....

1 Samuel 13, 19-22

To quote Aristotle on this very subject.

And it is manifest that tyranny has the evils of both democracy and oligarchy; it copies oligarchy in making wealth its object（for inevitably that is the only way in which the tyrant's body-guard and his luxury can be kept up）and in putting no trust in the multitude （which is why they resort to the measure of stripping the people of arms, ..... ).

Politics Book V, 1311.a11

Click on either quote for a trip to its respective source, I would never lie about the Bible ..... or Aristotle.

This "Gun Control" thing, evidently, has been going on for quite some time.