Compendium of all laws infringing firearm ownership / use

[namedpipes]

I think it would be instructive to compile a list of all Federal, State and Local laws that infringe on the acquisition / disposal, ownership, possession, carrying or usage of firearms and supplies. WITH CITES if you've got 'em, especially the state or local variety.

When Democrats pushed gun control in the wake of the March 30, 1981 attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life, Reagan responded by pointing out that the “more than 20,000 gun controls” then on the books proved powerless to keep John Hinckley Jr. from possessing a gun.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-20000-gun-control-laws-yet-hinckley-got-gun/

I have no idea how many exist, other than "too many".

For the love of GOD, how can one more law make a difference? Isn't it sufficient to say it is illegal to go around killing people willy nilly?

So let's list them. I'll start:

National Firearms Act ("NFA") (1934): Taxes the manufacture and transfer of, and mandates the registration of Title II weapons such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, heavy weapons, explosive ordnance, silencers, and disguised or improvised firearms.

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (1968): Prohibited interstate trade in handguns, increased the minimum age to 21 for buying handguns.

Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA"): Focuses primarily on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except among licensed manufacturers, dealers and importers.

Firearm Owners Protection Act ("FOPA") (1986): Revised and partially repealed the Gun Control Act of 1968. Prohibited the sale to civilians of automatic firearms manufactured after the date of the law's passage. Required ATF approval of transfers of automatic firearms.

Undetectable Firearms Act (1988): Effectively criminalizes, with a few exceptions, the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of firearms with less than 3.7 oz of metal content.

Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990): Prohibits unauthorized individuals from knowingly possessing a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.

Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (2005): Prevent firearms manufacturers and licensed dealers from being held liable for negligence when crimes have been committed with their products.

These are "probably" the bulk of the Federal laws (if we ignore the regulations imposed by ATF as "not law").

So, more Federal law? States Constitutions and laws? Country or local laws anywhere?

Let's find out just how bad the cancer is. Has it metastasized or can it still be fought?

MY view is the most correct course of action is to begin repealing ALL this crap leaving the Second Amendment as the law of the land. In other words, pervasive, nationwide Constitutional Carry.

 

[free]

Ughh.

 

[1919FAN]

Then there was the import barrel ban I think it was 2005.

 

[Uzi2]

Too many laws and people will refuse to adhere to any of them. Criminals don't obey them, why should anyone else?

They serve no purpose other than opening the door to government harassment and prosecution and satisfying the "feel good" of emotionally retarded fools.

 

[MachineHead]

I guess the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 is moot since the GCA 1968 took over. But the FFA 1938 established much of the basis for Question 11 on the 4473.

 

[Len-2A Training]

Sorry but it laughable to try to create a list of all gun laws. Swatgig put a book together of just the Mass gun laws back before the 2014 addition and it was 250 pgs. I'd say we probably have a thousand or more Mass gun laws and regulations that infringe on our rights <privileges according to our betters>.

 

[namedpipes]

Sorry but it laughable to try to create a list of all gun laws. Swatgig put a book together of just the Mass gun laws back before the 2014 addition and it was 250 pgs. I'd say we probably have a thousand or more Mass gun laws and regulations that infringe on our rights <privileges according to our betters>.

Nobody else is troubled by the idea that those thousand laws, each and every one of them, is unconstitutional?

We sure aren't winning this civil rights battle by persuasion. Unless y'all want to take up arms and launch CWII then stop thinking inside the box.

Find a way to make it blatantly obvious that "gun control" is a f*****g joke. That it has YET to save a single life. Is publishing a 2,000 page compendium of laws along with a list of all the deaths caused by those laws a bad idea? Maybe. Let's hear better ones then, OTHER than persuasion or violence.

 

[connor]

Nobody else is troubled by the idea that those thousand laws, each and every one of them, is unconstitutional?

We sure aren't winning this civil rights battle by persuasion. Unless y'all want to take up arms and launch CWII then stop thinking inside the box.

Find a way to make it blatantly obvious that "gun control" is a f*****g joke. That it has YET to save a single life. Is publishing a 2,000 page compendium of laws along with a list of all the deaths caused by those laws a bad idea? Maybe. Let's hear better ones then, OTHER than persuasion or violence.

There's no way to win. Some idiots have a world view that people are just going to be good if it's illegal not to be. No law has ever stopped a crime. The more they regulate guns, the more people are going to die at the hands of people wielding either homemade, stolen, or illegally procured weapons. More people will die to bombs, knives, swords, clubs, rocks, and hands.

Acording to cnn's top 20 mass shootings, 514 people have died in the 20 deadliest shootings in the US, ever. (doesn't count wounded knee, or any other gov't slaughter)

In an hour and a half on 9/11 terrorists killed almost 6 times that.


And that trend will continue. Okc bombing would have been a significantly less deadly event if he had shot up the place.


Interesting note: google deadliest mass murders- 4 out of the top 5 are "mass shooting" results not mass murders. It would be easy to say google skews it's results but it's probably just related to the various way google tries to make money off advertising improve search results.