passed by the US Congress on September 13, 1994,
signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on the same day
expired on September 13, 2004
Category Archives: Ban
Gun-Free School Zones Act
Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA)
- November 29, 1990
- introduced by Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin
- signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
- act of the U.S. Congress prohibiting any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a loaded or unsecured firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone
- applies to public, private, and parochialelementary schools and high schools
- applies to non-private property within 1000 feet of schools
- It provides that the states and their political subdivisions may issue licenses that exempt the licensed individuals from the prohibition.
Semi Automatic Rifle Import Ban (1989)
- Wed March 15, 1989 – spring suspension
- July 7, 1989 – Signed into law
- Bush Administration
- banned imports of semiautomatic assault rifles indefinitely
- announced by William J. Bennett, the director of national drug policy
- requests from importers to bring in the rifles had nearly tripled those for all of 1988
- Law enforcement officers have complained they are often outgunned by drug-traffickers and other criminals who carry high-powered weapons that fire many rounds without needing reloading.
- Doctors and nurses in major cities have reported sharp increases in the numbers of deaths and serious wounds from such weapons
- firearms dealers attributed the sharp jump in import-permit applications to a fear by the gun-owning public that purchase of the weapons soon would be prohibited
- Stephen E. Higgins, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, estimated that half the owners of assault rifles are collectors.
- The permanent ban affected all 43 of the 50 models included in the spring suspension
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Imports cited by Bennett
- 1988 = 113,732
- 1987 = 40,000
- 1986 = 4,000
Undetectable Firearms Act
Effective: December 9, 1988
expired on November 10, 1998
Congress renewed it again in 1998 for five years (2003)
Congress renewed it again in 2003 for ten years (2013)
Congress renewed it again in 2013 for another ten years (2023)
Mailing of Firearms Act of 1927
1927
- Mailing of Firearms Act
“National Firearms Control Act” - 18 U.S.C.A. § 1715
- prohibiting the use of the U.S.Postal Service to ship concealable firearms
- banned the shipping of concealable handguns through the mail