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On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his proposals for curbing gun violence in America. Some of his suggestions would require new laws -- an unlikely outcome, given Congress' gridlock and the ...
Obama voted against legislation protecting firearm manufacturers from certain liability suits, which gun-rights advocates say are designed to bankrupt the firearms industry. [151] Obama did vote in favor of the 2006 Vitter Amendment to prohibit the confiscation of lawful firearms during an emergency or major disaster, which passed 84–16. [159]
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.
Federal Firearms Act of 1938; Federal Firearms License; Firearm case law; Firearm Owners Protection Act; Gun Control Act of 1968; Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) Gun law in the U.S. Gun laws in the U.S. by state; Gun politics in the U.S. Gun show loophole; High-capacity magazine ban; History of concealed carry in the U.S. Homemade firearm
A historian explains how the U.S. was able to enact a federal gun control law in 1968, and why such a law would be hard to pass today.
On June 1, President Barack Obama appeared at a town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, for PBS NewsHour.After the broadcast, the President took questions from audience members and his answer to a question ...
On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, into the U.S. Senate. [19] [20] The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [21]
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a fierce advocate for gun regulation, has money in a pension fund that ...