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In 2003, a ban on certain "assault rifles" was passed, restricting citizens from possessing military-style rifles such as the AK-47 and the M-16. [218] In 2007, an additional decree suspended the right to openly carry and conceal carry a firearm in public, and limited the number of firearms a person can possess. [219]
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 ...
A Quinnipiac University poll taken after the 2023 Michigan State University shooting found that 48% of Americans opposed a ban on assault weapons, while 47% supported a ban on assault weapons. Support for a ban fell five points since the previous Quinnipiac poll in April 2021, showing a decline in support for banning sales of assault weapons ...
A single mass shooting was enough to force legislative change in a number of countries, including New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. These Countries Restricted Assault Weapons After Just One ...
U.S. Senate Republicans moved to block a ban on assault-style weapons put forward by Democrats on Wednesday, as the United States recorded the highest number of mass shootings for the second year ...
This is a list of gun politics articles, including gun politics by nation, and legal and political concepts and terms related to gun politics. 0-9 2nd Amendment Day
A federal judge on Thursday declared a California law banning assault weapons unconstitutional, saying the prohibition enacted in 1989 against semi-automatic weapons could not stand under a U.S ...
This is a list of countries by estimated number of privately owned guns per 100 people. The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns.