Federal Assault Weapons Ban

increasingly serious threat to U.S. public safety and will remain so in the future if gun control is not a main concern for the federal government. The current loose regulation of guns is not enough to protect Americans citizens, as evidenced by the increase in gun related crimes in the United States. Congress should promptly approve President Obama’s proposal for a new assault weapons ban and a more stringent system of background checks for gun purchasers. According to Thomas Hobbes, it is the…

challenges as of this writing, several state and local officials(25) initiated lawsuits challenging Brady, contending that the act violates the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reserves to the states powers not delegated to the federal government.” (DeFrancis and…

article named The Impact of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapon Ban on Gun Violence Outcomes: An Assessment of Multiple Outcome Measures and Some Lessons for Policy Evaluation the hypothesis is if there is a decrease in use of assault weapons there will be a significant reduction in the number of gunshot victims. Within this article there is a good amount of descriptive and inferential statistics that explain the different models of guns and how effective the ban put on these guns had a negative…

Whereas I disagree wholeheartedly with this law, it is crucial to keep those who are mentally unstable or ill from acquiring these weapons. Even though it is still possible for those who are mentally ill to slip under the radar and acquire a license for to purchase and possess firearms these laws keep them from doing even more harm. Furthermore, these laws are in place for a reason.…

Gun Control During a 60 minutes interview Senator Dianne Feinstein from California stated “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up every one of them (every gun) Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in. I would have done it.” (Brown). This statement could be seen as going against our Constitutional rights and is an example of the ideas of legislators trying to pass bills that would establish gun control regulations. While the second…

concerning problem that many seem to brush to the side – except for one senator, Dianne Feinstein of California. Dianne Feinstein has been a leading voice in the movement to implement common sense gun safety measures such as preventing people on a federal…

Need to Know About the Assault Weapons Ban, In One Post.” In it, Plumer discussed the 1994 assault weapons ban, and how it would apply to today. He said that there would need to be some revisions made to the old law, mainly taking out the loopholes that allowed people to still get assault rifles if they wanted one (Pulmer). He also wrote about how there was a ban of assault rifles in Australia, and it how it has worked out great for them (Plumer). Plumer said that the ban majorly decreased…

Gun ownership as well as its production has been an issue of debate for many decades probably since their coming into the human society. Looking at a gun closely we see that it is a small and easy to get weapon which can be very deadly if used for the wrong purpose or handled improperly. Guns are made to kill targets ranging from birds, animals and human beings in case of wars or enforcing the law by a police officer. The issue of controlling guns in the United States is not just to send the…

at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, brought up a huge debate in America. Should the United States government attempt to put “another” ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazine clips? Lacking a rigid definition, an assault rifle has a set of criteria that includes rapid-fire, and military –style rifles, in which the ban would name specific makes and models as well as magazines that, hold more than ten bullets and exclude them from societal purchase. (Richman). Gun…

Defending Banning of Assault Weapons Gun rights and gun control activism have been dominating the United States politics for centuries. One of the main areas of the activism lies on whether to ban the use of assault weapons. Gun control activists have been lobbying policy makers to formulate policies aimed at preventing the use of assault weapons. Assault weapons should be banned in the United States due to the negative impacts that emanate from their use. The existence of loopholes in gun laws…