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The National Tracing Center (NTC) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the sole firearms tracing facility in the United States. It provides information to provide foreign (international), federal, state and local law enforcement agencies with suspects for firearm crime investigations, detect suspected firearms traffickers, and track the intrastate, interstate and ...
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, but have strong firearms laws to prevent violence.
In 2022, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit which found that "thousands of firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition had been stolen from National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction (NFAD) from 2016 to 2019." [38] The NFAD is the branch of the ATF uses to dispose of firearms forfeited to the ATF. The report also ...
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 Firearms Policy Coalition is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.Its legal team, FPC Law, bills itself as, "...the nation's first and largest public interest legal team focused on the right to keep and bear arms," and states that "the primary objective of our legal action programs is to bring cases that protect your rights and property, restore individual liberty, and help us achieve our ...
The Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (Firearms Protocol) is a treaty on anti-arms trafficking including Small Arms and Light Weapons that is supplemental to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It is one of the so-called Palermo protocols.
Kerner (1921) that requiring any form of permit, fee, or license to openly carry a firearm off one's own premises is unconstitutional according to Article 1, Section 30 of the state constitution, which declares: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not not ...
Bockfest is an annual beer festival held in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio on the first full weekend of March. It is the oldest German-style bock beer festival in the United States. [1] It drew an estimated 20,000 attendees in 2013 [2] and 30,000 in 2014. [3] Bockfest originated from the 1992 special release of a beer by Hudepohl Brewing Company.