Federal Assault Weapons Ban

the general public agreed. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Gun Control Act of 1968. President Bill Clinton signed into law The Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. This banned several semi-automatic assault weapons and…

In 2015 there was a total of 53,379. In 2014 it was reported that there was 51,848 gun related incidents. (Gun Violence archive, 2016)The gun violence does not have any signs of slowing down. Every day, 48 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Every day, 7 children and teens die from gun violence. Every day, 40 children and teens are shot and survive. Every…

to bear arms and protect themselves against foreign and domestic terrorist. The perceived thought is that it’s a violation of our rights as citizens to interfere with that right. It’s also a violation of privacy for honest citizens to have to do a federal registration of firearms that are bought. This is one subject that the Party feels strongly about, in trying to protect, with everything that is happening right now in the country with the mass shootings. The Democratic Party stance on gun…

really the crime committer here? Guns are just an item, the person who pulls the trigger is the one in control; therefore the guns should not be put into blamed for the actions of the person pulling the trigger. Though Chicago bans gun shops, shooting ranges, assault weapons, and high capacity magazines, 2,089 people were a victim in a shooting. And almost 390 of those were…

Background checks are not required with every gun purchase in this nation. This has caused embezzlement to become quite frequent and has put guns in the hands of those unfit to possess such weapons. Current law states that “only licensed gun dealers are required to perform background checks for all gun sales, and only those individuals deemed to be ‘engaged in the business’ of dealing in guns are required to obtain a license from the Bureau…

Should assault weapons be illegal? In the past years, guns have come under scrutiny and as a result, legislation has been passed restricting their use. The prevalence of mass shootings has added fuel to the flames and has motivated many legislators, mostly from the Democratic party, to advocate for the banning of assault weapons. The use of semi-automatic guns should be illegal in the United States because they are unsafe and useless for citizens. If semi-automatic weapons were made illegal,…

McVeigh on subjects such as the law prohibiting the possession of poisonous substances that can harm or kill, and slaughterhouse. In the summer of 1992, he spent some time at Terry Nichols home in Michigan, which they both shared a hatred for the Federal Government. After his vacation, he returned to his father’s home in upstate New York in Timothy McVeigh decided to quit his security job and pack up his thing and take a long trip where he begins to sell guns and military items at gun shows.…

there were only two federal statutes, and going to the Clinton era and having two decades worth of policy and laws on firearms, firearm laws have changed drastically. But with Congress stepping in and getting help from state legislature, all the goals of having a gun safe world is being destroyed and being limited to three realistic goals such as reducing possession by high-risk people, restricting access from certain people, and using guns to stop top level offenders. Federal level firearm…

gun background checks cannot be feasibly expanded however a licensing system can be created to cover the loopholes in federal gun control law. A thorough examination of issues raised by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, will showcase the failings of the current system. The gun control debate centers around expanding gun law to include outright bans or restricting law to include forbidding gun ownership altogether. Data shows that these routes will not be good to…

In January of 2002, the Federal Government repealed and re-enacted the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) as part of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) (Federal Law on Guns in Schools). These gun free zones create perfect public mass shooting hot spots. Elliot Rodger, who shot three people in Santa Barbara to death, explained why he picked his…