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    What Was The Case About?

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    the case about? (Summary of the Case) ATF “GunWalking” operations came about from the criticism of the bureau for focusing on relatively minor gun violations while failing to target high-level gun smuggling figures. Currently, the U.S. firearms laws govern the possession and transfer of firearms and provide penalties for the violation of such laws. “Gun trafficking” for the most part, includes the movement or diversion of firearms from legal to illegal markets. However, A United States Government

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    Gun control is the term that describes the use of law to limit people access to any kind of guns, rifles, firearm, etc. through passing law that required checking of criminal record background before purchasing a gun to be registered and many other methods. Many people in American have strong feeling about gun control. The victims of gun violence are high in numbers in the United States of America compared with other countries. Every year, Americans have to bear the massive tragedies of shootings

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    Gun Control

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    Gun Control Group Project “Guns in America” Gun Control Group Project Opinions In the United States of America, we as citizens have the right to bear arms, provided to us by the second amendment to the U.S. constitution, and are part of the United States Bill of Rights. Most American’s still believe that it is our right to bear arms, while a growing number of Americans believe that there should be better gun control regarding this matter. A rising trend has begun on Capitol Hill and all

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    Brief History of the Nra

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    History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control, it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms, and it is interested

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    come into question until 1822. A Kentucky court case indicted a man for carrying a sword concealed in a cane. The man was fined $100.00. But it wasn’t until 1856, that the second amendment was affirmed by the US Supreme Court, that the ownership of a gun was extended to individuals as a right. It would be

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    The issue of gun control policy is an extremely controversial topic in this country. Ongoing mass shooting and gun violence happening across the country has not been enough to implement stricter gun control policy nationally. Individual opinions vary significantly, some call for strict gun control policies and some fear this will dismantle the second amendment right. Gun control policy has become a divisive political issue that politicians and people cannot come together to end gun violence. In order

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    The Issue Of Gun Control

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    issue in the Americas is the problem of gun control and if guns should be allowed. Many Americans will argue that since it is allowed in the Second Amendment there should be no argument that the people should be allowed to own guns. Others will say there should be gun control because many crimes committed are with guns. On the other hand it could be seen as criminals still finding some way of getting guns albeit through smuggling or some other way of obtaining guns which would lead to more issues because

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    Background checks are the most effective way of preventing gun crimes. There are multiple cases of school and community shootings and how it could be prevented if there were some sort of system to catch perpetrators. Gun violence has been an issue since the 1970s and started to peak in the 1980s and 1990s. Gun Violence is violence committed with the use of a gun and recently there has been an increase in gun crimes, but due to background checks they have decreased. A background check is the process

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    The free range of interpretation of the Constitution by the branches of government has allowed the country to continue to function and not become stagnant. This is important because the laws of the 18th century United States would not be relevant to that of the 21st century. Technology and the complexity of the world are examples of why interpretation of the constitution is important because no can say for sure any of the original drafters of the constitution anticipated the size the United States

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    The Brady Act Essay

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    secretary who was severely wounded by a bullet in the assassination attempt of Reagan in 1981. Since the enactment of the Brady Law, violent crimes committed with firearms have greatly reduced. In fact, from 1985 all the way up through 1993 the use of guns in crime was at an all time high. It was until the Brady Act was passed that the use of firearms in crimes decreased. Today the Brady Act continues to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. The Brady Handgun Violence Act of 1994 is a federal

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