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Friday, December 19, 2014
Since the 1960s, gun control supporters have tried to get one or another variety of ammunition banned, severely restricted, prohibitively taxed or excessively regulated, to discourage the acquisition of guns and undermine their use. For example, though the Gun Control Act of 1968 preamble stated that the law was not intended ...
"Assault Weapons" and "Large" Magazines The congressionally-mandated study of the federal “assault weapon ban” of 1994-2004 found that the ban had no impact on crime, in part because “the banned guns were never used in more than a modest fraction of gun murders.” (Urban Institute[1]) Rifles of any type are ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Background Checks for Guns NRA opposes expanding firearm background check systems, because background checks don’t stop criminals from getting firearms, because some proposals to do so would deprive individuals of due process of law, and because NRA opposes firearm registration. Background checks don’t necessarily stop criminals from getting firearms. ...
Friday, February 15, 2019
The 3 day proceed to sale provision, often referred to by the gun control community as the “Charleston loophole”, is not a loophole at all. It is a necessary component of our current background check system. Under current law, commercial firearms transactions cannot proceed until a background check determines that ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Among its duties, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) monitors firearm manufacturers, importers and dealers for compliance with record-keeping requirements; conducts traces on the commercial paths of individual firearms at the request of law enforcement agencies; interprets firearm importation law; and administers transfers of firearms regulated by ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
December 2021 Gun Ownership and Crime Trends For decades, gun control activists have predicted that crime will increase as more people own more guns or burdensome restrictions on gun rights are repealed. The opposite has been true. Americans own more firearms and Americans in more states can lawfully carry a ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
During the emergency conditions following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans’ police superintendent ordered the confiscation of privately owned firearms, saying “Only law enforcement will be able to have guns.” While any individual may need firearms for protection at any time, it is during general emergencies that large numbers of ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
September 2019 Waiting Periods Waiting periods are arbitrary impositions with no effect on crime or suicide, introduce no additional investigative avenues, and only burden law-abiding gun owners without changing how or when criminals obtain firearms. Waiting periods do not change the background check process; no additional investigative measures are taken ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
February 2020 Gun Safety Since 1903, the earliest year of data available, the per capita rate of gun accident deaths has decreased 95 percent, from 3.1 to 0.14 deaths per 100,000 population. [1] There were 458 fatal firearms-related accidents in 2018 – the lowest since at least 1903 – and ...
H.R. 131: Protecting Lawful Transportation of Firearms The Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA) is an important provision of federal law intended to protect the right of law-abiding gun owners to transport firearms throughout our nation. Yet in the years since its enactment, it has been ignored by anti-gun local officials ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Gun shows are widely attended by Americans interested in firearms for defensive purposes, hunting, sports, recreation and historical significance. In the 1990s, gun control supporters began claiming that criminals were commonly acquiring guns at shows. However, studies by the federal government have repeatedly shown that less than one percent of ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
August 8, 2016 Handguns Americans own about 150 million handguns, accounting for 46 percent of firearms acquired since 1985 and about 40 percent of privately owned guns in the United States. (ATF) 6-7 million new handguns are manufactured in the U.S. or imported annually. (ATF) Two-thirds of gun owners own ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
NRA has been engaged at the United Nations and elsewhere internationally in response to overreaching small arms initiatives for two decades. During this time, we have been actively opposing transnational efforts that would limit Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms. NRA has been a recognized Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations since ...
Friday, June 3, 2022
Microstamping The theory behind “microstamping” is that firearms could be equipped with a firing pin or other internal firearm part that could imprint unique microscopic identification marks onto ammunition cartridge cases when the gun is fired. Each firearm and its corresponding markings would be entered into a computerized database accessible ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) requires the registration, with the federal government, of fully-automatic firearms (termed “machineguns”), rifles and shotguns that have an overall length under 26 inches, rifles with a barrel under 16 inches, shotguns with a barrel under 18 inches, and firearm sound suppressors (termed “silencers”). ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Gun control supporters demand that state legislatures impose a wide variety of gun control restrictions within their borders. However, they hypocritically cry foul when legislatures use their power to limit gun control. Frustrated at their inability to convince state legislatures to adopt the restrictive firearm laws they propose, gun control ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014
August 8, 2016 Gun Registration and Gun Licensing Gun registration and gun owner licensing wouldn’t prevent or solve crimes. Most people sent to prison for gun crimes acquire guns from theft, the black market, or acquaintances. (Bureau of Justice Statistics[1]) Half of illegally trafficked firearms originate with straw purchasers who ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Self-defense is a fundamental right, and the right to use firearms for self-defense is recognized by the Constitution of the United States, the constitutions of 44 states, the laws of all states, and the common law. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014
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 be infringed. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms for defense of life and liberty. In U.S. v. ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Conceptually, a "smart" gun is one that incorporates technology that would prevent the gun from being used by an unauthorized person. Currently, no viable guns equipped with such technology exist. Gun control supporters advocate laws to prohibit the sale of firearms that do not possess "smart" technology, as a way ...
Thursday, January 1, 2015
In 1979, gun control supporters within the U.S. Public Health Service started believing they could increase support for gun control by defining firearms as a disease. Studies conducted by gun control supporters in the public health field in the 1980s and early 1990s became the basis of anti-gun activists' claim ...
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action issued the following statement on the terror watch list distortions: “The NRA does not want terrorists or dangerous people to have firearms, any suggestion otherwise is offensive and wrong,” said Jennifer Baker, director of public affairs. “Under the current system, law enforcement ...
