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  2. Firearm Owners Protection Act - Wikipedia

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    Regarding these fully-automatic firearms owned by private citizens in the U.S., political scientist Earl Kruschke said "approximately 175,000 automatic firearms have been licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (the federal agency responsible for administration of the law) and evidence suggests that none of these weapons has ...

  3. Assault weapons legislation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It defines certain semi-automatic firearms as assault weapons, and prohibits their manufacture, sale, transfer, or possession. Existing assault weapons would be grandfathered in – that is, they would be legal to possess, and legal to sell or transfer through a federally licensed gun dealer.

  4. 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.

  5. Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

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    A nationwide review of government audits and court records over the last 20 years uncovered at least 50 cases of police illegally selling their weapons online, through dealers, out of their homes ...

  6. Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act - Wikipedia

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    Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act; Other short titles: Child Safety Lock Act of 2005: Long title: An Act to prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages, injunctive or other relief resulting from the misuse of their products by others.

  7. Firearms are being turned into machine guns by criminals in ...

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    Jul. 28—Small, inexpensive devices that turn semiautomatic guns into fully automatic weapons are showing up in the Dayton region, and authorities warn they pose a significant threat to public ...

  8. 3D printed device to turn pistols into automatic weapons ...

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    The number of illegal conversion devices recovered in Oklahoma has increased exponentially. Nationally, from 2017 to 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recovered 5,454 ...

  9. Federal firearms license - Wikipedia

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    The federal firearms license was established to and implement the Gun Control Act of 1968.The 1968 act was an update or revision of the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA), which required all manufacturers and dealers of firearms who ship or receive firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce to have a license, and forbade them from transferring any firearm or most ammunition to ...