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Under Iowa law, private citizens may not possess automatic firearms, any firearm "other than a shotgun or muzzle loading rifle, cannon, pistol, revolver or musket" with a bore of more than 6/10 of an inch (unless it is an antique made in or before 1898), or any explosive, incendiary or poison gas destructive device., short-barreled rifles ...
In 2022, after being denied a concealed carry permit, N.S. petitioned the court to restore his rights. ... Split court upholds Iowa law limiting gun rights, 2-2-3. Joining Waterman in his opinion ...
If this amendment passes, Iowa lawmakers could find themselves unable to act to keep their constituents safe. Editorial: Iowa gun amendment has no upside and hard-to-measure risks. Vote no.
The Nov. 8 vote would be the final step in adopting the proposed constitutional amendment, a longtime goal of Republicans in the Iowa Legislature.
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.
After two deadly mass shootings in May 2022—the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York and the Uvalde school shooting—the Democratic-majority House (on a near party-line vote) passed a package of gun-control bills, including a safe storage bill and bills to increase in the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, ban ...
A coalition of 21 conservative states, co-led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new federal rule regulating licenses for gun dealers.
The boyfriend loophole was introduced in 1996 with the Lautenberg Amendment, which established stricter gun control restrictions in the United States in order to combat domestic abuse. [2] This law included a definition of an "intimate partner", who would be prohibited from accessing guns, but it did not encompass certain dating partners. [3]