Category Archives: Federal Law

FBI – Uniform Crime Report

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since 1930

Each month, law enforcement agencies report the number of known ‘index crimes’ in their jurisdiction to the FBI

Violent crime & Property crime

  • 1927 – IACP created the Committee on Uniform Crime Reporting
    – to determine statistics for national comparisons:
    – murder
    – non-negligent manslaughter
    – forcible rape
    – burglary
    – aggravated assault
    – larceny
    – motor vehicle theft
  • 1930 – 1st report = 400 cities in 43 states
    – covering 20 million (20% of U.S. population)
  • 1934 – Uniform Crime Report
    – by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
  • 1979 – arson was added
  • 1984 – NIBRS
  • 2003 – data compiled from more than 16,000 agencies
    – 93 percent of the population in 46 states and D.C.
  • 2021 – Projected shift to NIBRS countrywide
  • Traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS)
  • National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
  • Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program
  • Hate Crime Statistics Program
  • Cargo Theft Reporting Program

Crimes NOT indexed:

  • Public Corruption
  • Kidnappings
  • Drug Trafficing
  • Money Laundering
  • Human Smuggling
  • Weapon Smuggling
  • Cyber Crimes
  • Stash Houses

Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET)

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February 25, 1919

  • Section 4181 of the Internal Revenue Code
  • imposes an excise tax on imported firearms and ammunition
  • since January 2003  – administered by the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Bureau (TTB) within the U.S. Dept. of Treasury
  • 10% tax of the sales price is imposed on pistols and revolvers
  • 11% tax of the sales price is imposed on other portable weapons (rifles & shotguns) and ammunition

Militia Act of 1903 – the Dick Act

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Jan 21, 1908

created an early National Guard and codified the circumstances under which the Guard could be federalized

Unorganized Militia

which included all able-bodied men between ages 17 and 45

Organized Militia

which included state militia (National Guard) units receiving federal support

Freedmen’s Bureau Act 1865

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prohibited the possession of firearms by anyone who had supported the Confederacy.

it interfered with states’ rights, gave preference to one group of citizens over another and would impose a huge financial burden on the federal government, among other issues.

Militia Acts of 1792

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The first Act, passed May 2, 1792

authority of the president to call out the militias of the several states

“whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe”

The second Act, passed May 8, 1792

provided for the organization of the state militias. It conscripted every “free able-bodied white male citizen” between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company. (This was later expanded to all males, regardless of race, between the ages of 18 and 54 in 1862.)

Militia members, referred to as “every citizen, so enrolled and notified”, “…shall within six months thereafter, provide himself…” with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, ¼ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack

Some occupations were exempt, such as congressmen, stagecoach drivers, and ferryboatmen.