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The tactic of drive-by shooting originated when assailants would ride up to their targets on horseback, shoot them with wheellock pistols and then ride off before they could be apprehended.

Some of the first gun control laws were developed to combat these shootings.

However there is no evidence that in states / countries which are legal " gun-free ", or " car gun free " it stopped the drive-by shooting, ( e. g. the L. A. Raymond Washington death ).