Enforcement
During the 1950s and 1960s, the NRA helped black organizations secure rifles for egocentric defense. In response to the Brunet Panthers, Ronald Reagan of California signed the Mulford Action in 1967, which prohibited the carrying of guns. A favorite target of handgun charge is so-called "junk guns", which are generally cheaper and therefore added ready to minorities. However, some civil rights organizations favor tighter gun regulations. In 2003, the NAACP filed suit against 45 gun manufacturers for creating what it called a "public nuisance" through the "negligent marketing" of handguns, which included models commonly described as Saturday night specials. The suit alleged that handgun manufacturers and distributors were guilty of marketing guns in a design that encouraged violence in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. "The magnum multinational back-number refused to take even substratal measures to keep criminals and prohibited persons Buy Guns from obtaining firearms," NAACP President/CEO Kweisi Mfume said. "The monopoly must be as responsible as any other and it must stop dumping firearms in over-saturated markets. we have oblige an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."