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While the Gun Control Act prohibits the direct mail-ordering of firearms, a person may ship a gun via contract carrier (such as United Parcel Service (UPS), United States Postal Service, or FedEx) to a gunsmith (who has an FFL) or the gunmaker's factory for repairs or modification. After the repair work is done, the gunsmith or the factory can ...
The act bans shipment, transport, possession, ownership, and use of guns or ammunition by individuals convicted of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. [5] The 1968 Gun Control Act and subsequent amendments had previously prohibited anyone convicted of a felony and anyone subject to a domestic violence protective order [6] from possessing a firearm.
Under sections 922(g) [12] and (n) [13] of the Gun Control Act, certain persons are prohibited from: Shipping or transporting any firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce or foreign commerce; Receiving any firearm or ammunition that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. [10] A prohibited person is one who:
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.
Hayes, 555 U.S. 415 (2009), is a United States Supreme Court case interpreting Section 921(a)(33)(A) of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended in 1996. The Court held that a domestic relationship is not necessarily a defining element of the predicate offense to support a conviction for possession of a firearm by a person previously ...
In accordance with the Gun Control Act of 1968, Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) are required to report the sale of multiple handguns to the same person within 24 hours or within five consecutive business days, [19] a program overseen by the ATF and reported through ATF Form 3310.4, which requires disclosure of the firearms sold and new owner ...
Gun control advocates took some solace from the latest ruling, with Esther Sanchez-Gomez, litigation director at the Giffords Law Center, saying it showed that "common sense still needs to rule ...
Licensed gun dealers are still fine; the idea here is curbing the background-check-free sales that can occur on a person-to-person basis. Note the past tense there.