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Legal Topics // Legal Topics Primary Organizations Liberty Belles Prominent individuals Advocates of firearms Gary Kleck Charlton Heston Wayne LaPierre John Lott Ted Nugent Advocates of firearms control Darrell Scotts Congressoinal Speech Michael D. Barnes Michael Bellesiles James Brady Sarah Brady Tom Diaz Arthur Kellermann Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) Josh Sugarmann...
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, or AWB, is a provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a federal law of the United States that includes a prohibition on the sale of semiautomatic assault weapons manufactured after the date of the bans enactment. ...
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, also known as the Brady Bill, was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 30, 1993. ...
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. ...
Firearm case law are numerous in United States history. ...
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (also known as GCA, and codified as Chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code) is a federal law in the United States that broadly regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. ...
Gun politics in the United States Constitutional issues The private ownership of guns is an especially contentious political topic in the United States, where the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: The meaning of this text remains fiercely debated, with some saying that the amendment only refers to...
Many US states have legislated their own gun control laws, independent of existing federal gun control. ...
The National Firearms Act is an American federal law passed in 1934 that mandates the registration of all Title II weapons - that is, all sound suppressors or silencers, all fully-automatic and burst-fire firearms, all rifles with a barrel length less than 16 inches (406 mm) (SBR) and shotguns...
Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. ...
A straw purchase is a situation in which a buyer uses an intermediary (a straw purchaser) through which to acquire one or more firearms from a licensed firearms dealer. ...
The Sullivan Act is a controversial gun control law in Americas largest city of New York. ...
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994) is a piece of legislation, passed by the US Congress, which expanded Federal law in several ways. ...
Primary Organizations
Gun politics in the United States Constitutional issues The private ownership of guns is an especially contentious political topic in the United States, where the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: The meaning of this text remains fiercely debated, with some saying that the amendment only refers to...
The National Rifle Association, or NRA, is a highly organized 501(c)(4) group for gun promotion in the United States. ...
Gun Owners of America is the second largest gun rights organization in America. ...
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership or JPFO is a group dedicated to the preservation of gun rights in the United States. ...
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership or JPFO is a group dedicated to the preservation of gun rights in the United States. ...
The Pink Pistols are a gay gun rights organization in the United States. ...
Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. ...
The Brady Campaign or Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence or The Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March was founded in 1974 as the National Council to Control Handguns and was named Handgun Control, Inc. ...
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence or CSGV is a non-partisan group of 45 organizations and 100,000 individual members founded in 1974 that seeks to ban handguns and assault weapons in the United States. ...
The Americans for Gun Safety Foundation is an organization that is ostensibly for gun safety but is seen by some as a front organization for gun banners. ...
Prominent individuals
Advocates of firearms Gary Kleck is a criminologist at Florida State University who is a strong advocate against gun control. ...
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1922, although the year is usually given as 1924), is an American film actor noted for heroic roles, and his personal conservative Republican politics, which were anomalous for many years, but no longer, in Hollywood. ...
Wayne LaPierre (born November 8, 1948) has been Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Rifle Association since 1991. ...
John R. Lott Jr. ...
Ted Nugent Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge and the Motor City Madman is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes. ...
Advocates of firearms control Michael Darr Barnes (born September 3, 1943 in Washington, DC) represented Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987 and has been the president of the Brady Campaign gun control organization since March 1, 2000. ...
Michael Bellesiles is the author of Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, a book which ignited passions on both sides of the gun control debate with its central argument: that guns were uncommon in early America and were of little use. ...
Chaos outside the Washington Hilton Hotel after the assassination attempt on President Reagan. ...
front cover snapshot of A Good Fight, published in 2002 Sarah Kemp Brady (born February 6, 1942) is the wife of former White House Press Secretary James Scott Brady. ...
Tom Diaz is the director of the Violence Policy Center and is one of the more strident advocates for gun control. ...
Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as co-chair of the Committee on the Consequences...
Michael Moore with his Oscar award after Bowling for Columbine won the 2003 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. ...
Bowling for Columbine is a film directed by and starring Michael Moore. ...
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