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  2. Federal Firearms Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA) imposed a federal license requirement on gun manufacturers, importers, and persons in the business of selling firearms. The term federal firearms licensee (FFL) is used to refer to those on whom the license requirement is imposed. [1] The "FFL" abbreviation is also used to refer to the license itself. [2]

  3. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese, who conducted much fighting aboard ships and rivercraft, valued a more compact gun, and thus this approach became popular. [31]: 41 [32] Malay gun founders, regarded as at the same level as those of Germany, quickly adapted these new firearms and birthed a new type of arquebus, the istinggar. [33]: 385

  4. Forensic science - Wikipedia

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    The term forensic stems from the Latin word, forēnsis (3rd declension, adjective), meaning "of a forum, place of assembly". [5] The history of the term originates in Roman times, when a criminal charge meant presenting the case before a group of public individuals in the forum.

  5. National Firearms Act - Wikipedia

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    The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as I.R.C. ch. 53.The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms.

  6. Gun law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Gun show, in the U.S.. Most federal gun laws are found in the following acts: [3] [4] National Firearms Act (NFA) (1934): Taxes the manufacture and transfer of, and mandates the registration of Title II weapons such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, heavy weapons, explosive ordnance, suppressors, and disguised or improvised firearms.

  7. Gun - Wikipedia

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    A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The projectiles are typically solid, but can also be pressurized liquid (e.g. in water guns / cannons ), or gas (e.g. light-gas gun ).

  8. Bill changing definition of 'machine gun' signed into law

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    Jul. 28—House Enrolled Act 1365, authored by Rep. Mitch Gore, D-Indianapolis, was signed into law with an emergency clause that put it into effect immediately. The bill changed the definition of ...

  9. Guns don't kill people, people kill people - Wikipedia

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    When arguing that guns have moral value and technological agency, the responsibility of the human is also considered. The gun-human relation becomes a key factor in analysis. Law in the United States already has parallels, for example in the case of regulations for automatic firearms.

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