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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:______________________________________________________ The Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, in short: The Brady Act, was United States legislation that was passed by Congress in 1993. The Brady Act required a five-day waiting period and criminal background check, performed by state and local law enforcement, for the purchase of a handgun. The Brady Act was instituted to curtail handgun violence and decrease the probability of a handgun ending up in a criminal’s hands. The

8. Enhance the enforcement of inspections of FFL dealers. In 2014, of the 140,000 FFL dealers in the U.S., only 10,429 were inspected (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 2015). This means roughly 7.5% of FFL dealers were inspected during the 2014 fiscal year. By law ATF can only inspect FFL dealers once a year, but it seems they aren’t even capable of doing that. Dealers with expired licenses, hazardous store conditions, stolen firearms and a myriad of other issues and safety concerns

possible commit heinous acts. The addition of strict gun control laws can reduce deaths and crimes rates by firearms drastically, as gun ownership decreases and new regulation can prevent horrific accidents from happening. Canada serves as a perfect representation of the benefit of strict gun control laws and how they help improve crime and death due to firearms in America. Canada has two main laws concerning firearms, the Firearms Acts and the Criminal Codes. The Firearms Acts pertain to the right

possession, modification, or use of firearms. The first type of gun control was the National Firearms Act of 1934 was proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The act required a taxation for machine guns and shotguns. Due to high crime rates, technology advances, and population growth, Congressmen decided to manufacture more laws and regulations for firearms. President Lyndon Johnson passed several acts

In the 1950’s, the sudden desire of cookie cutter neighborhoods with luxurious cars parked in the garage, and blond haired children running in the front yard was the common depiction of prosperity and success. However, systematic racism in the housing sector hid under those cars and trees, lurking in the shadows. For many decades, minority groups were openly rejected from certain regions in their towns and lived in deteriorating homes without proper maintenance. Leading to a poverty cycle, these

there is three major laws that prohibit specific firearms. The National Firearms Act of 1934 restricts citizens from possessing automatic weapons, hand grenades and other powerful arms. There is another federal law, The Gun Control Act of 1968, which prohibits mail-order sales of weapons, and requires anyone in the gun selling business to be licensed. Finally the third is the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 which requires dealers to perform background checks.

This year, almost every other day, whenever I turned the news channel on, I’d always hear about a shooting. Whether it was a shooting in a small neighborhood of New Jersey or the mass shooting in Las Vegas, all of them would bring the same question to my mind: are guns really protecting people? Many people in this country believe that they have the right to own a gun to protect themselves and their loved ones, and I understand where they are coming from because I’d want to make sure my family is

Currently there are over 45,000 collateral consequence laws in the United States, some of which bar ex-offenders from affordable housing (Metraux and Culhane 2004). The federal Fair Housing Act bans discrimination against race, color, national origin, religion, etc.; however there are no federal laws protecting the housing rights of ex-offenders. Private landlords may choose to bar or discriminate against ex-offenders, and many felons are

Gentrification has become a common phenomenon throughout many major cities in the United States and it is impacting millions. Gentrification can be dated back to the urban renewal and slum clearance, and post war reconstruction programs implemented during the 1950s and 1960s Schaffer and Smith 1986). Although the main idea of gentrification is to, from an economic standpoint, rebuild the city and redevelop its urban core, some people are in fact negatively impacted. There seems to be a trend on the

Introduction In 1993, there were more than 18,000 firearm homicides in America. That number has been decreasing for the past two decades. In 2011, the reported number of firearm homicides was a little more than 11,000. In another part of the world, Germany was reported to have less than 200 firearm homicides, France less than 50. It is also estimated that there are around 270 million guns in America. This paper examines the possibility that if the American government put into place gun regulation