National Firearms Act

Throughout the last Eighty years our society has passed many laws regulating the use and the ownership of gun possession. President Roosevelt developed the first legislation known as the National Firearm Act of 1934. This legislation was developed during the prohibition years due to an increase in organized crime (Bice & Henley, 2002). Before this law was passed fully automatic firearms were made readily available to the general population. Therefore many mobsters such as Al Capone were getting their hands on these firearms and federal employees were being killed in the crossfire of gang wars. The National Firearm Act required all individual’s to pay a 200-dollar tax and register the gun with the Internal Revenue in order for him or her to…

Chicago. The Supreme Court, in a five to four outcome in favor of the Second Amendment, brought up the fact that the Second Amendment was integrated beneath the Fourteenth Amendment, which limits action of local and state officials, therefore; protecting the rights of the government trying to infringe upon the Second Amendment. “Individuals were therefore granted a constitutional right to keep firearms in their homes for self-protection, a right that was deemed greater than a state’s power to…

people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." So why are gun control laws even in place? Gun control laws started to go on the rise during Franklin D. Roosevelt 's presidency. The National Firearms Act and the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 enforced new penalties on machine guns and sawed-off…

can get hold of firearm in the US. This is not a singled out incident, the San Bernardino shooting incident leaving 14 dead and 22 wounded in December 2 2015, the Colorado Spring (Planned Parenthood) shooting leaving 3 dead and nine injured on November 29 2015, the Oregon (Harper Mercer) incident leaving 9 dead and 9 injured on October 1 2015 is only naming a…

When the National Firearms act made there were things grandfathered over that allow extremely dangerous weapons to still be a part of the public, such as machine guns, and short- barreled rifles. The Attorney General makes decisions in regards of when weapons can be sold by who, and who the weapons can be owned by when transferring weapons.(Law Center, 2013) That makes one persons beliefs ruling over everyone in regards to weapons, this needs to be changed to a committee that would have…

Sandy Hook massacre. That 's more than twice as many as the 5.4 million firearms produced in 2010. (Dent, 2016) In 2014 there was a shooting close to home, in Darby, Pennsylvania where someone carrying a firearm was credited a hero and saved many lives due to the fact that he was legally carrying a firearm. Honestly, there is a lot of propaganda about gun control. So much so that the truth has been lost. Due to current times of the 2016 presidential election, this is a hot-button issue. We…

D. Roosevelt enacted the National Firearms Act of 1934, which was the commencement of any regulation and control over firearms. Furthermore, this enactment made all purchases of a weapon at the time to be archived in a national registry and imposed a $200 tax on the sale of firearms, which at the time included; machine guns, and sawed-off shotguns. President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues his progression of gun control later in 1938 when he introduces the National Firearms Act of 1938, which…

armed with two legally owned semi-automatic weapons and a handgun went on a six hour shooting spree, killing sixteen people and then himself. This caused the United Kingdom to expand their list of banned weapons, including some semi-automatic weapons. In 1996, a middle-aged man used four handguns to kill sixteen school children and one adult. This mass-shooting brought on even stricter gun laws banning handguns with a few exceptions. It also sparked a gun buyback program, which has taken…

In the south, the biggest fear was keeping firearms out of the hands of the free blacks or slaves before the Civil War. This is also the time period when the NRA began flexing their muscles and putting their stamp on the political scene. Their organization played an instrumental role in defeating a national proposal on handgun prohibition. The NRA did this by educating and urging their membership to contact their legislators concerning the proposed handgun prohibition through their magazine…

United States of America is famous for the giant gun industry and for the freedom of gun owning. Every year, millions of firearms manufactured in America and set to public. According to Firearms Commerce in the United States Annual Statistical Update, 8,578,610 sophisticated firearms produced in 2012. This number is three times higher than what has been produced in late 80’s. The production of firearms increases year by year. As stated by Swiss Research Center Small Arms Survey, United States of…