I've given this a lot of thought. I don't see any peaceful way of disarming America's whites. There's only one thing that's going to save this country from itself. The same thing that always saves this country from itself. That is African Americans. And I know the question that a lot of y'all have on your minds is, Should we do it? Yeah, fuck yeah, we should do it. No matter what they say or no matter how they make you feel, remember this is your country, too. It is incumbent upon us to save our country. And you know what we have to do. This is an election year. We've got to be serious. Every able-bodied African American must register for a legal firearm. That's the only way they'll change the law.

The display so frightened politicians--including California governor Ronald Reagan--that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.