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Minnesota, New York, Delaware also have new gun laws coming into effect in the New Year. Minnesota passed a binary trigger ban, which goes into effect on Jan. 1. A binary trigger allows a gun to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court upheld large portions of an expansive New York state gun control law on Thursday, saying the state can ban people from carrying weapons in "sensitive ...
The bill passed the House and Senate last week after months of closed-door talks between the branches.A handful of Democrats joined all Republicans in opposition to the final version of the bill ...
The bill was passed by the House on June 24 by a vote of 234–193, with 14 Republicans voting in favor alongside all 220 Democrats. [13] The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25, 2022. [14] It was the first major federal gun legislation to be passed since the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. [13]
Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun law, passed in response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown that claimed 26 lives, is also being contested in court.
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.
The United States Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. § 922(p)) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm that is not as detectable by walk-through metal detection as a security exemplar containing 3.7 oz (105 g) of steel, or any firearm with major components that do not generate an accurate image before standard airport ...
The Massachusetts House approved a sweeping gun bill Wednesday aimed at tightening firearm laws, cracking down on unregistered “ghost guns" and strengthening the state’s assault-style weapons ban.