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6 Οκτ 2023 · IN 1968, after five years of debate on firearms control, Congress passed a Gun Control Act designed to "provide support to Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials in their fight against crime and violence."' This paper reports on an effort to study the impact of the Gun Control Act on
THE GUN CONTROL ACT OF 1968. WILLIAM J. VIZZARD* For three decades, the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA) has formed the legal core of national gun policy in the United States.
The plaintiffs alleged that the regulations, arising out of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, were “unconstitutional because they infringe on the right of 18-to-20-year-old adults to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.”
This article's study of strict construction of gun control statutes has three parts. Part II generally explains the rule of strict construction and its function as a limit on arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. Part III describes the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the first three Supreme Court decisions interpreting the 1968 Act.
House Resolution 17735, known as the Gun Control Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1968 [11] banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users, and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns.
27 Αυγ 2014 · A second effort in the wake of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King produced the Gun Control Act of 1968, which largely remains the primary federal law. Even this modest control effort was subsequently diluted by the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986.
Two primary federal statutory regimes govern the transfer, sale, and possession of firearms: the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53) and the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44), as amended.
