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Although it is commonly referred to as an assault weapons ban, New Jersey's law actually uses the term "assault firearm" to define banned and regulated guns. Among the list of firearms identified as 'assault firearms' are the Colt AR-15, AK variants and all 'M1 Carbine Type' variants. Some New Jersey gun advocates have called its laws "draconian".
The result of the Kasler v. Lockyer was a list of AR and AK-style firearms that are banned in California by name. These firearms include the Armalite AR-15, Bushmaster XM-15, Colt AR-15, Kalashnikov USA Hunter Rifle, MAADI CO AK-47, ARM, MISR, and MISTR, to name a few. There are a total of 84 firearms that are banned by name on this list.
Colorado state Senate passed a bill that would ban AR-15s, AK-47s, ... AR-15 rifles are displayed for sale at the Guntoberfest gun show in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 6, 2017.
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
Between 1994 and 2004, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, or AWB, was enacted due to action by President Bill Clinton and Congress. This ban prohibited the sale and manufacturing of semi-automatic ...
Maryland in 2013 enacted its ban on "military-style assault rifles" such as the semiautomatic AR-15 and AK-47, after a shooter used such a weapon in the 2012 mass killing of 20 children and six ...
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, signed into law in 1994, restricted the features of AR-15 rifles bought by civilians. The ban expired a decade later in 2004, raising interest in the weapons and ...