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National Firearms Act (NFA)
Provide taxation of maufacturerers, importers and dealers in certian firearms and machine guns, to tax the sale or other disposal of such weapons, and to restrict importation and regulate interstate transportation. -
Omnibus Crime Control & Safe Streets Act
prohibited interstate trade in handguns, increased the minimum age to 21 for buying handguns, and established a national gun licensing system. -
Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA)
The bill was set in place to protect firearm owner's constitutional rights, civil liberties, and rights to privacy. -
Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA)
The bill was set in place to protect firearm owner's constitutional rights, civil liberities, and rights to privacty. -
Undetectable Firearms Act
law that makes in unable to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm that is not detectable by a walk-through metal detector -
Gun Free School Zones Act
Law that prohibits any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone. -
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
this act institued federal background checks on firearm purchases in the United States -
Federal Assault Weapons Ban
prohibition on the manufacture on civilan use of semi-automatic firearms. -
Federal Assault Weapons Ban Expires
A federal law in the US that included a prohibition on the sale to civilians of certain semi-automatic firearms, so called “assault weapons.” There was no legal definition of “assault weapons” prior to the law’s enactment. The ten-year ban was passed by Congress on September 13, 1994. Then was finally signed for the ban in 2004 -
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
prevent firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for negligence when crimes have been committed with their products