National Firearms Act

laws. However, government should not limit private ownership of firearms due to statistics…

1837, when the Georgia legislature banned handguns - but even that was struck down by the Supreme Court eight years later. In 1927 congress passed a law that banned mailing of concealable weapons. Then, in 1934, congress approved of the National firearms act - regulating only fully automatic guns such as sub-machine guns. C. Definition of Terms D. Arguments 1. Affirmative Arguments (Georgia) People who have legal rights to a gun can always change, for example they could fall…

Restricting access to the means for suicide works. An effective strategy for preventing suicides and suicide attempts is to restrict access to the most common means, including pesticides, firearms and certain medications. The risk of suicide increases dramatically when children and adolescents have admittance to guns at home, and about 60% of all suicides in the United States are submitted with a weapon. That is the reason any weapon in your home ought to be emptied, kept, and kept out of the…

2013). The fact that a gun or guns were used in the commission of these crimes does not, in itself, warrant the removal of weapons from society. If this were the case we would need to remove all alcohol which causes more deaths annually than all firearms-related deaths. The one commonality in all of these occurrences is the state of mind and mental health of the shooters. In all of the examples presented so far, there were signs and indications that each individual had some sort of mental…

gun. While majority owners obtain their guns in transactions that are documented and for the most part legal, the same is not true for criminals. In the article published in Newsweek, almost all guns used in criminal acts enter circulation via initial legal transaction. A national survey of inmates of state prisons found that 10% of the respondents who admitted to have gun at the time of arrest had obtained from a gun store, while 90% obtained them through a variety of off-the- book means, such…

going to be finding a way to fix it or repair it. However, why do we not have these same characteristics and ideas when trying to solve the issue of gun control? Instead of even trying to solve the problem, some gun advocates are calling for more firearms to be carried around, practically adding fuel to the fire we hope to eventually extinguish. President Obama speaking on the inaction of our country after recent tragic shootings said, “ "This is a political choice that we make to allow this to…

Firearms have been around since the Middle Ages. The potential of this type of weapon soon registered with military leaders as it required little or no training; just load and point in the right direction, preferably towards the enemy. This allowed for larger armies when soldiers were easier to train compared to the longbow or the crossbow. Just like any mass assault with projectile weaponry, if enough bullets are flying in the air, some will hit their targets. In the United States alone, an…

No Guns on Campus For this essay, I will be discussing the merits of allowing teachers to possess hand guns on school campuses around the nation. Recently, in response to school shootings, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has recommended that teachers be allowed to carry hand guns on school premises as a deterrent for school shootings. In this paper, I will provide research, statistics and expert testimony that will counter this claim and support my claim that teachers should not be allowed…

identified with the Republican political party because a more advanced and strict gun regulation would mean more government involvement, which is something most conservatives disagree with. A major unofficial actor within this policy problem is the National Rifle Association, or NRA. They have been a key organization against gun reform and have often associated themselves with the conservatives (Sugarmann 9). The arguments against gun reform often reference the second amendment of the U.S.…

federal levels along with mental health facilities, without violating HIPA or privacy rights. Over the years funding has been a major issue. This is an expensive task. The Brady act of 1993 has not been effective thus far. Frank Campbell, the man who was charged with heading up the background checks required in the Brady act said “There’s been no publicly stated reason by Congress or the President why they ask for so little in their budgets,” Campbell tells The Trace. “It doesn’t make any…