January 17, 2013
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which became operational in 1998, verifies that a person seeking to buy a firearm from a gun dealer is not prohibited from doing so by federal or state law. The National Rifle Association supported its establishment. Gun control supporters opposed NICS, preferring to require a gun purchaser to wait several days after stating the desire to buy a gun, before receiving it from a firearm dealer.
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March 12, 2013
An article appearing today on NBCNews.com is falsely reporting that NRA will not oppose legislation being negotiated in the U.S. Senate that would mandate background checks for all gun purchasers.The story posted on NBCNews.com alleges that NRA will not oppose expanding the background check system to include all private firearm sales, "provided the legislation does not require private gun sellers to maintain records of the checks". This statement is completely untrue.
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January 24, 2013
An article appearing on TheHill.com today asserted that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is working on a bill with the NRA that would implement universal background checks.
NRA does NOT support universal background checks and is not working with Manchin to implement this type of legislation. NRA opposes, and will continue to oppose, universal background checks and registration schemes.
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December 13, 2010
In 1995 the Canadian government, under the control of the Liberal Party, passed the Firearms Act, which established a registry and licensing program for long-gun owners, as well as storage and transport requirements.
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February 15, 2010
The continuing saga of South Africa's dwindling gun owners provides a case study of what gun-banners want to do in the United States.
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February 19, 2008
Want to see that celebrated British stiff upper lip begin to quiver? Just mention to Parliament or press that England is not the isle of tranquility envisioned more than a century ago, when the nation began the systematic disarmament of its citizens.
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February 7, 2006
(Fairfax, VA) - This afternoon Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) introduced legislation to eliminate the requirement in the 1996 Welfare Reform Bill that requires hunters and fishermen to...
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September 29, 2004
Fairfax, VA -- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation to restore the right of self-protection to law-abiding citizens of Washington, D.C. The...
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July 1, 2004
FAIRFAX, VA -- Virginia Right-to-Carry permit holders are no longer subject to the state’s one-gun-a-month restriction, thanks to a law effective July 1. Fifteen additional pro-gun...
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May 13, 2004
FAIRFAX, VA -- After overwhelming support in the Florida Legislature and from firearm owners across the state, Governor Jeb Bush signed two important gun rights bills (SB 1156 and HB...
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April 15, 2004
FAIRFAX, VA -- In a victory for Second Amendment rights, several bills passed by the Virginia General Assembly and backed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) were signed into law...
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January 10, 2004
"Gun control" advocates purposely mischaracterize BATFE firearm commerce tracing for several purposes, frequently to promote "assault weapon" (AW) bans.
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July 17, 2003
FAIRFAX, VA - The "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act," a bill that seeks to restore the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding D.C. residents, was introduced today in the...
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January 31, 2003
Bill Lockyer (D) has finally acknowledged what NRA has been saying for some time—any ballistic "fingerprinting" scheme implemented today would be flawed and unworkable.
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January 15, 2003
Federal law requires persons engaged in the business of dealing in, manufacturing, or importing firearms, or manufacturing or importing ammunition, to have a Federal Firearms License, which is regulated and administered by the BATFE.
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October 5, 2001
Automated computer matching systems do not provide conclusive results. Rather, a list of potential candidates are presented that must be manually reviewed. When applying this technology to the concept of mass sampling of manufactured firearms, a huge inventory of potential candidates will be generated for manual review. This study indicates that this number of candidate cases will be so large as to be impractical and will likely create complications so great that they cannot be effectively addressed.
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September 11, 2001
New research into Adolf Hitler`s use of firearm registration lists to confiscate guns and execute their owners teaches a forceful lesson that reveals why the American people and Congress have rejected registering honest firearms owners.
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May 22, 2001
The following letter which was submitted to the Los Angeles City Council by Councilmember Cindy Miscikowski outlines the main provisions of her proposal to combine the Hernandez and...
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April 20, 2001
Part of the Soros Foundation Network, the Open Society Institute released a report written by an Australian gun prohibition advocate, endorsing a wide range of schemes promoted by anti-gun activists in the U.S.
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October 7, 2000
Handgun Control Chair Sarah Brady told the New York Times that her ultimate goal is a "needs-based licensing" system, with all guns and all gun transfers registered, as in England, where subjects first had to register guns, then had their guns confiscated.
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October 7, 2000
England's gun prohibition laws came about only after its gun owner licensing system was established.
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April 19, 2000
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland declared illegal a program demanding that certain licensed dealers turn over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) all records on lawful firearm purchasers for a three-year period and for the indefinite future.
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March 28, 2000
Anti-gun officials in Australia complained when NRA focused attention on their country`s crime trends after the 1996 gun ban on. But they couldn`t change what their government`s own statistics showed.
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February 15, 2000
Canada's political leaders promised gun registration would never lead to gun confiscation. They lied.
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January 27, 2000
"Gun control" advocates seek gun prohibition through incremental, "reasonable" steps. To see how the strategy plays out, consider the example of New York City.
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September 3, 1999
Clayton Cramer answers the question, "What`s wrong with gun registration?"
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July 28, 1999
Civil rights lawyer Don B. Kates says that at the core of the gun-control "movement" is the belief that it is barbaric for an individual even to have--much less use--arms for self-defense.
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July 16, 1999
Kopel explains how Britain went from wide-open freedom of the right to arms, to almost complete gun prohibition in just a few decades. It offers an object lesson for American gun owners.
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