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5 days ago · Gun control, politics, legislation, and enforcement of measures intended to restrict access to, the possession of, or the use of arms. Debates over such measures often center on whether regulations are an undue restriction on liberty and whether there is a correlation between guns and crime.
5 days ago · The relatively narrow holdings in the Heller and McDonald decisions left many Second Amendment legal issues unsettled, including the constitutionality of many federal gun-control regulations, whether the right to carry or conceal a weapon in public was protected, and whether noncitizens are protected through the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal ...
- What does the Second Amendment say?The original text for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...
- Does the Second Amendment allow owning guns for self-defense?In the 2008 landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that the Second Amendment includes the right of individu...
- Who wrote the Second Amendment?The Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, was proposed by James Madison to allow the creation of civilian forces that can counteract a tyrannical fed...
- Which U.S. Supreme Court justices think the Second Amendment recognizes the individual’s right to be...Of the current sitting members of the Supreme Court, Justices Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Jr., and Samuel A. Alito, Jr., voted in the majorit...
- Do militias exist in the United States today?Modern militias are most commonly known as State Defense Forces (SDFs). As of 2010, 23 states and territories maintained their own SDFs. Unlike fed...
- Is ownership of an assault weapon constitutional?The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act in 1994 banned private use of assault weapons, such as certain semiautomatic rifles....
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1 day ago · The Gun Control Act of 1968, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, came after the high-profile assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert Kennedy.
15 hours ago · Scientists have been investigating gun violence as a public health hazard for a long time but that suddenly stopped in 1996 as the gun lobby partnered with its supporters in Congress to pass the Dickey Amendment that blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from funding any research “to advocate or promote gun control.”
1 day ago · Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 5,000+ sources daily – Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website. Suicide estimates from CDC extrapolations have been removed until we can get a more accurate, timely number to properly reflect the serious suicide problem in this country ...
4 days ago · The officers were there, in other words, to enforce a gun-control law with nearly universal acceptance. And yet, in the aftermath of this horrific incident, progressive politicians couldn’t help ...
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