Gun Control Pros And Cons

Gun control is a terminology that refers to a form of legislation that is intended to regulate the possession and usage of firearms. In the United States, gun control is a controversial issue because the ownership and usage of firearms are provided for in the Second Amendment in the American Constitution (U.S. Const. am. 2). The main reason behind the debate on gun control is the frequency with which mass murders occur with firearms as the weapons. The push for reforms in the gun control policies is a matter of debate with the National Rifle Association (NRA) at the center of it (Duignan). This is the case because of the NRA advocates for the preservation of the Second Amendment provisions (The Law Library of Congress, 1) The NRA is the leading

This legislation was intended to impose taxation laws on the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of firearms and their peripherals such as silencers and mufflers. According to Gray, the tax that was imposed was $200. In 1938, The Federal Firearms Act (FFA) mandated that gun manufacturers and traders ought to acquire a federal license that permits them to handle firearms (Vizzard, 881). Additionally, the FFA provided that for certain individuals namely, such as convicted felons to be prohibited from having the right to purchase firearms. This prohibition of purchase was to be upheld through the use of customer records that firearm dealers were necessitated to have, under the FFA provision. In the following year (1939), a supreme court case for the state versus Miller resulted in a ruling that called for the NFA of 1934 to extend the Senate's mandate. The Senate was empowered with the power to control the sale of a short barrel shotgun across the interstate. This ruling was applied under the premise that under the Second Amendment, a sawed-off shotgun was not provided for and thus the law did not apply to

This act was passed by Congress and it was intended to safeguard gun owners from the otherwise, stringent gun ownership policies that had been passed in the previous years. The provisions of the FOPA stopped the practice of keeping a national registry for the firearm dealers’ records (Vizzard, 882). Additionally, FOPA stipulated that the mandated ATF gun inspections were to be limited to once every annum unless multiple inspections were necessitated; for instance, in the case of multiple gun law infractions by a gun owner. Other stipulations that were imposed by the act included the injunction against the transfer of ownership of civilian-owned machine guns. A supplementary implementation of the FOPA was the redefining of the term ‘silencer’ to contain the parts used to make them.
In 1993, following a failed attempt on the life of U.S President Ronald Regan, was the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Vizzard, 881). This act amended the GCA provisions and it was passed into law by President Bill Clinton. The provisions of the law mandated that a background check was a compulsory pre-requisite for the purchase of a firearm from a licensed firearm dealer, manufacturer, or importer. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is the supervisory body charged with the role of maintaining the National Instant Criminal