The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights states clearly that the people’s right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed on. This has led to one of the most complicated and volatile issues in America today. People on both sides of this issue have strong beliefs. Some argue that when our founding fathers wrote the bill of rights, the guns were not as deadly as the ones available today. Supporters of the Second Amendment today argue that people’s right should not be infringed on no matter what. Gun control laws should not be strengthened because there are already enough laws on the books, statistics show that gun control is not working, and more regulations only affect the law abiding. The federal government has not passed a new gun control
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In 1994 the republican controlled congress put a hold on any further actions towards gun control at the federal level. At the state level there are a number of different views when it comes to gun control. For example, Arizona has some of the most lenient guns laws of all the states. Arizona does not require a background check to transfer a firearm, does …show more content…
This law is called The Gun Control Act of 1968. Under this law anyone who sells a firearm as a retailer is required to have his customer fill out an ATF form 4473. On this form there are nine areas that if the customer answers yes to they are automatically prohibited from the purchase of a firearm. Some of the reasons a person may be prohibited from purchasing a firearm are if they are a convicted felon, an illegal alien, someone with a history of domestic violence, and someone who has renounced their American citizenship. Also, with this law every gun retailer must keep an “Acquisition and Disposition” log of every firearm they have in their inventory and every firearm they sell. The Gun Control Act of 1968 also forbids the purchase of any handgun outside of the state that the customer resides in. Also this law states that private sales may only take place between residents of the same state, and these private sales are described as the sale of a rifle between members of the same gun club (Kopel, 2016). The main focus of The Gun Control Act of 1968 was to regulate retail sales and the interstate commerce of said sales. It did not regulate the private sales within the individual
In 1994 the republican controlled congress put a hold on any further actions towards gun control at the federal level. At the state level there are a number of different views when it comes to gun control. For example, Arizona has some of the most lenient guns laws of all the states. Arizona does not require a background check to transfer a firearm, does …show more content…
This law is called The Gun Control Act of 1968. Under this law anyone who sells a firearm as a retailer is required to have his customer fill out an ATF form 4473. On this form there are nine areas that if the customer answers yes to they are automatically prohibited from the purchase of a firearm. Some of the reasons a person may be prohibited from purchasing a firearm are if they are a convicted felon, an illegal alien, someone with a history of domestic violence, and someone who has renounced their American citizenship. Also, with this law every gun retailer must keep an “Acquisition and Disposition” log of every firearm they have in their inventory and every firearm they sell. The Gun Control Act of 1968 also forbids the purchase of any handgun outside of the state that the customer resides in. Also this law states that private sales may only take place between residents of the same state, and these private sales are described as the sale of a rifle between members of the same gun club (Kopel, 2016). The main focus of The Gun Control Act of 1968 was to regulate retail sales and the interstate commerce of said sales. It did not regulate the private sales within the individual