Gun control laws regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. In addition, these laws also regulate the types of guns that may be owned, waiting periods required for purchase, and classification of persons who are prohibited from owning firearms. There are many countries with restrictive firearm guiding policy, with only a few laws being considered as tolerant. The Second Amendment of 1789 (revised in 1992) states “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”. Police powers are those reserved to the State under the Tenth Amendment. The 10th Amendment is the section of the Bill of Rights stating “any power that is not given to the federal …show more content…
As Colin Greenwood has written, "The Common Law right to keep arms and the tradition of owning arms for protection, was built up during a period when there was no effective police, when the individual was compelled to see to his own protection” (Leddy 1991). All 50 states allow some level of “concealed carry” or in other terms carrying a concealed weapon (CCW). California, Florida, Illinois, Texas, South Carolina and New York, as well as Washington D.C. are the only states prohibiting open carry of hand guns in public, but some states are considerably more restrictive than others. Though gun control is not strictly a biased issue, there is generally more support for gun control legislations in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party. Liberals are outspokenly against gun control although their platforms favor limited government. Subsequently, state statutes defining offense of possession of concealed carry did not preempt municipal ordinance, defining violation of carrying loaded firearm in