Should circulation of guns be better regulated to prevent more deaths?
Guns. They are everywhere, America obsessed with guns. Civil citizens own estimated 300 to 310 million of different kinds of guns, from pocket size .22 caliber pistols to assault rifles and machine guns. In 1993, after a years of opposition from the NRA, a bill, also known as Bradley Bill, was signed into the law by President Clinton. The Brady Act or Law requires every person intended to buy a firearm to undergo a background check. And in 1998 the FBI launched National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. However, Brady Act does not mandate to run background check on private gun sales. But some of the states require it. In California, for example, if you want …show more content…
The gun show is nothing like a show where people go to see most recent products or technologies, but it is more like a flea market. There are two types of vendors at the gun shows: Federal Firearm Licensees (FFL) and private sellers. The FFL are required to run a background check on all buyers and private sellers are not. You get my point right, literally everyone can buy a gun at the gun show. You just need two things: an ID, not necessarily a real one, and a stack of cash. More to say about gun show vendors is this: in 20092 state of New York conducted an undercover investigation of a gun shows. The facts it uncovered were unbelievable. It said, that about 63% private sellers when approached by investigators and when told they wouldn’t pass a background check would continue with a transaction. Some of the private sellers failed the same test at multiple shows. Private sellers are allowed to engage in occasional selling of weapons from their own collections, but some of them seemed to be selling guns on a regular basis, which is an illegal practice. One of the private vendors acknowledged that he sold 348 assault rifles just in one year. Also the FBI claims that about 30% of crime guns are traced back to gun shows. The Federal government needs to close the gun show loophole as soon as possible. When fixed, it will make harder for criminals to obtain …show more content…
They defend their position mostly by appealing to the Second Amendment of Constitution, which in their interpretation gives the right to bear arms to every individual. In fact, they are against any restriction on ownership, manufacturing or use of firearms. But in 2008 the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment did secure the right of law-abiding, responsible adults to have handguns in their homes for protection. Also the court did acknowledge that most forms of gun regulation are still constitutionally permissible. “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited,” Justice Antonin Scalia, explained.
They also claim that more armed individuals lead to less crime, which is not true. In states with more guns, level of violence, robberies, killings are generally higher than in those with less registered guns.
In my opinion time has come when we need to put out the rampaging fire of gun violence in our country by developing and implementing the whole new system of gun circulation in which individuals with good intentions will be able to enjoy the recreational use of their guns, have the ability to protect their families, and criminals, psychopaths, maniacs and terrorists will get no access to the guns
Guns. They are everywhere, America obsessed with guns. Civil citizens own estimated 300 to 310 million of different kinds of guns, from pocket size .22 caliber pistols to assault rifles and machine guns. In 1993, after a years of opposition from the NRA, a bill, also known as Bradley Bill, was signed into the law by President Clinton. The Brady Act or Law requires every person intended to buy a firearm to undergo a background check. And in 1998 the FBI launched National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. However, Brady Act does not mandate to run background check on private gun sales. But some of the states require it. In California, for example, if you want …show more content…
The gun show is nothing like a show where people go to see most recent products or technologies, but it is more like a flea market. There are two types of vendors at the gun shows: Federal Firearm Licensees (FFL) and private sellers. The FFL are required to run a background check on all buyers and private sellers are not. You get my point right, literally everyone can buy a gun at the gun show. You just need two things: an ID, not necessarily a real one, and a stack of cash. More to say about gun show vendors is this: in 20092 state of New York conducted an undercover investigation of a gun shows. The facts it uncovered were unbelievable. It said, that about 63% private sellers when approached by investigators and when told they wouldn’t pass a background check would continue with a transaction. Some of the private sellers failed the same test at multiple shows. Private sellers are allowed to engage in occasional selling of weapons from their own collections, but some of them seemed to be selling guns on a regular basis, which is an illegal practice. One of the private vendors acknowledged that he sold 348 assault rifles just in one year. Also the FBI claims that about 30% of crime guns are traced back to gun shows. The Federal government needs to close the gun show loophole as soon as possible. When fixed, it will make harder for criminals to obtain …show more content…
They defend their position mostly by appealing to the Second Amendment of Constitution, which in their interpretation gives the right to bear arms to every individual. In fact, they are against any restriction on ownership, manufacturing or use of firearms. But in 2008 the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment did secure the right of law-abiding, responsible adults to have handguns in their homes for protection. Also the court did acknowledge that most forms of gun regulation are still constitutionally permissible. “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited,” Justice Antonin Scalia, explained.
They also claim that more armed individuals lead to less crime, which is not true. In states with more guns, level of violence, robberies, killings are generally higher than in those with less registered guns.
In my opinion time has come when we need to put out the rampaging fire of gun violence in our country by developing and implementing the whole new system of gun circulation in which individuals with good intentions will be able to enjoy the recreational use of their guns, have the ability to protect their families, and criminals, psychopaths, maniacs and terrorists will get no access to the guns