Federal Assault Weapons Ban

U.S. at more than 200 million, with about 40% of them being handguns. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that in 2006 firearms were employed in more than 73% of U.S. homicides, with handguns comprising 88% of the firearms used. Regulation of the purchase and ownership of firearms in an effort to reduce their criminal or unsafe use. Typically, gun control legislation may require registration of firearms; ban the possession of firearms by minors, felons, the mentally ill, and…

Guns are regulated by Federal and State laws. State laws vary from state to state and are not very strict. Only 6 states have strict laws and those states have less gun violence. In terms of strict, its just these 6 states required permit to carry a concealed weapon and gun are prohibited in public places. Federal law i.e. Brady law requires background checks except when buying from private parties. Ban on automatic rifles was only from 1994 to 2004 and law makers started debating of providing…

most recent crisis is involving a gun, and shame on them for not understanding the purpose of the Second Amendment. There are those who continually whittle away at the Second Amendment with assault weapon bans, magazine capacity bans, other various gun restrictions and gun carry restrictions. There were no bans by our colonial government of any kind, and citizens were allowed to own, and carry whatever the state of the art weaponry was at the time. When one considers the intent of the Second…

2009 as antigun measures. 40 states legally provide concealed-carry permits. 10 years ago, only a few hundred thousand people had concealed weapon licenses, but by 2013 more than 6 million Americans had a concealed carry permit. One question was should there be semi automatic and handgun restrictions? In January 2013 there was a proposed ban on assault weapons and magazines that hold more than ten rounds,…

away. The pro gun side in a nutshell believes it’s a fundamental right of Americans to purchase and own firearms. Now within these groups there are views expressed on the far left and the far right, some for limited gun control while other feel any ban is unconstitutional. To start, I’m Pro 2nd amendment, to a point, because I’m also pro gun control to a point. It’s my thinking that most people want sane, law abiding citizens to be able to obtain firearms to protect themselves from…

second amendment states that the United States Of America has the right to bear arms, but it seems that some citizens of America want to make it harder for us to own fire arms. Some want to ban semi-automatic rifles because “they kill people”. They also wish to ban high-capacity magazines; furthermore. they wish to ban fire arms overall. Gun Control is unconstitutional, causes more deaths, and denies us law-abiding…

dates back to the Revolutionary War when militias formed by citizens needed firearms to fight off the British crown. After Independence was won, it was decided by the Constitutional Convention that the citizens were permitted to keep their weapons so that the Federal Government could not become as powerful as the English Monarchy. In the Constitution it is stated, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not…

hears about those shootings, an example of that is the shooting at sandy hook connecticut is harder on guns than most states. There ended up being a shooting there, the gun that was used was able to be automatic or burst which is considered an “assault weapon” under the eyes of the law. That did not stop Adam Lanza from shooting up the school. Who knows the real reason he shot up the school but he would rather do that then shoot up a police station because there are no guns in a elementary and…

repeated public calls for stronger federal gun control laws (Pendergast, Pendergast, Sousani 31). Throughout the extensive period of time in which many American citizens…

Evan Gardiner Gardiner 1 English Ms. H. Bodanis Effectiveness of Gun Control: From Australia to the United States of America On April 28th, 1996, Martin Bryant entered the Broad Arrow café, in Port Arthur, ate a meal and slaughtered 12 people. Port Arthur is a former penal colony on the southeast coast of Tasmania. He committed this atrocity with a semi-automatic rifle. He then left the café and continued through a gift shop, parking lot and finally to a gas station killing 22 more…