The League of Nations abandoned proposals to limit the private manufacture of arms in advance of a conferences on arms trafficking The thought was the United States would oppose such actions, which is interesting in that this is the first instance of such a proposal of which I'm aware.
Gun control itself had gained support, somewhat, after World War One. It did exist to some extent before, but after the war it really started to advance, in no small part due to social concerns, rather than criminal ones. It came into the UK for the first time, for example, as the British upper class feared that the lower class had been radicalized.
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