>"The Communist party must control the guns."   This appears to be a reconstruction of "Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."

Thanks, Rap. I've been doing this for fifty years. And yes, it can be annoying.

This is the quote I suspected of being bogus. And it turns out it is.

Mao's actual words are about military power, not individual gun ownership. (There's a big difference between "the gun" and "the guns.")

The "reconstruction" (i.e., distortion), easy to find on right-wing sites, implies that he was talking about what he'd do to the Second Amendment after the Commie/liberal takeover of the U.S.

Undoubtedly he would have done it. But the distorted version is misleading about what he meant and when he meant it.

I doubt Mao spent much time plotting against the Second Amendment.

A perfect ex. of why we need to see the sources of controversial statements.