National Firearms Act

Background: The National Instant Criminal Background Check system (NICS) The NCIS was invented by FFL (Federal firearms licensees). The reason for creating the FFL was for the public to be able to contact them by phone or via any electronic means regarding any form of information whether the passing around of firearm will violate the section 922 of title 18, United States Code, or State law. (FBI). 18 U.S code and 922 are laws that are contains the unlawful acts listed by the United States.…

this world. As Americans, we are facing with an ever-growing problem of violence. There are more cases of children and teenagers engaging in violence. There has been a huge debate over whether gun laws are strict enough and solutions for reducing such acts from occurring. With more people are affected on a regular basis, more problems arise as how people can live safely when guns are being used in increasing numbers. It is disgraceful to say that everyday, the public hear about some sort of gun…

The District of Columbia passed the 1975 Firearms Control Regulations Act. This act made it illegal to own handguns, automatic firearms, or high capacity rifles and prohibited the possession of unregistered firearms. Dick Heller, a special police officer in the District of Columbia, carried a firearm as part of his job. He was granted access into federal buildings with the gun, but the new provision made it illegal to possess in his own home. Along with Dick Heller, five other D.C. residents…

This particular incident led to the Firearms Amendment Act that extended the list of banned weapons and increased registration requirements for other weapons. The stringent laws are all to reduce the likelihood of a gun getting into the wrong hands. Police officers in each part of the UK, England, Scotland and Wales have separate licenses for shotguns and other firearms (Casciani, 2010). Before a gun is issued, the British police have to check the Police national Computer criminal record. They…

Imagine a day where everything is going good then you miraculously have a thief break into your house. Panicking, you run to find something that will ensure safety in a case of harm by the intruder. Due to the laws retaining the purchasing of firearms for you and your spouse, in case you come in contact with a intruder, one can not be self-defensive in the situation potentially causing more problems than needed. Most people face a fear of burglary, theft, and intruders, and have few options in…

the Union address, President George Washington stated, “a free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.” This assertion was in a section of his speech which was dedicated purely to advocating for the right of the American citizens to own firearms. It can be inferred that Washington believed that gun control itself was not the problem, but rather how people used or viewed guns. Many of the founding fathers of the United States such as Noah Webster, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson…

like a machine gun. Gun owners had already learned by this point that their opponents would go for any target of opportunity, restricting more in the future, and not finding a solution to the crime (Hardly). The National Rifle Association reported that there were over three million firearm-related checks conducted in December 2015, with a forty-three percent increase from December…

to have less crime (Snyder). While gun ownership went up five times as much, crime rates were cut by 76% in the past seventy years. An award winning expert on crime who teaches as a professor at Florida State University did a study that showed firearms are used 2.5 million times a year for protection. The study also showed that guns are used for this reason 3.5 times more than they’re used for criminal purposes. The gun was mostly just used to scare the criminal and was rarely actually fired…

Gun-control is a set of laws that regulate who can buy, sell, and own firearms. The basic idea behind gun control is to keep guns out of criminal hands. However, some argue that it almost does virtually nothing. Criminals still have guns even in the places with very strict gun-control. Gun-control is one of the most controversial…

Gun control can be defined as, “any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens” (Lee). America has internally debated the issue of gun control for over a century. It continues to be an important and pressing issue today in the United States. There are no set standards for gun control. Each state varies in its laws. For example,…