Category Archives: Laws

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

Robertson v Baldwin, an 1897

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1897

First Supreme Court case to address Concealed carry

 

  • Robertson v Baldwin
  • the court ruled that the right to arms is an “ancient” and “fundamental” right, a right which was “inherited from our English ancestors” and has existed “from time immemorial.”
  • first Supreme Court case to address Concealed carry

Presser v. Illinois

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1885

Second Amendment limited only the power of national government, not of the states to control firearms

 

Argued November 23–24, 1885
Decided January 4, 1886

the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution limited only the power of Congress and the national government to control firearms, not that of the states, a

 “Unless restrained by their own constitutions, state legislatures may enact statutes to control and regulate all organizations, drilling, and parading of military bodies and associations except those which are authorized by the militia laws of the United States.” It states that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution limited only the power of Congress and the national government to control firearms, not that of the states, and that the right to peaceably assemble was not protected by the clause referred to except to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

United States v. Cruikshank

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1876

the Bill of Rights did not apply to private actors or state governments, despite the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment


Argued March 30 – April 1, 1875
Decided March 27, 1876

rules that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms

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.