Bagly, Jay. "History of Gun-control Legislation." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2012. Web. 01 Apr. 2014. .
The very first federal restriction on guns was put in place by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934, a “New Deal for Crime”. During this time period, bank robberies and muggings were a normal scene and bank robbers were even made famous such as; Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, and Baby Face Nelson. This made a tax on the sale or manufacture of machine guns or sawed off shotguns. The second part of Roosevelt’s “New Deal”, the National Firearms Act of 1938, was approved a short 4 years later. This required gun dealers to record their sales and made it illegal to sell guns to people convicted for violent crimes, or under indictment for crimes of violence.
The biggest change in gun control was brought in 1968 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson passes the Omnibus Crime Control, the Safe Streets Act, and the Gun Control Act, which are all still the primary reference for regulating guns. It keeps all felons, drug users, and the mentally incapable from legally purchasing guns. It raised the age to 21 in order to buy from a federally licensed dealer. It also changed a lot of licensing requirements and made gun dealers take more detailed record keeping.
1986 prompted the first official ban on any gun. Machine guns made after may of 1986 were banned to be in ownership of a civilian by order of the Firearm Owners Protection Act.
In 1993, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was passed which required background checks through a new system, which backed the previous mandate in 1968.
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...arly directed to Democrats and people wanted a lot more gun control. It gives sources way out of context and twisted to support their views.
For example, of course murder and homicide rates are going to be 40% higher around Texas, New Mexico and Arizona but not because of the lack of gun restriction in the states. That area of Mexico is way worse than the vacation spot south of California that’s barely even consider Mexico. Baja California is beaches and clubs and mostly Americans vacationing, they have something there to make money off of besides dirt.
Central Mexico, which is south of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, doesn’t have much more than drug cartels going for them.
Taking away guns from Texans wouldn’t help against the murders of illegal criminals who’s job is to cart illegal items around. Those criminals obviously aren’t law-abiding citizens.
Amity Shlaes tells the story of the Great Depression and the New Deal through the eyes of some of the more influential figures of the period—Roosevelt’s men like Rexford Tugwell, David Lilienthal, Felix Frankfurter, Harold Ickes, and Henry Morgenthau; businessmen and bankers like Wendell Willkie, Samuel Insull, Andrew Mellon, and the Schechter family. What arises from these stories is a New Deal that was hostile to business, very experimental in its policies, and failed in reviving the economy making the depression last longer than it should. The reason for some of the New Deal policies was due to the President’s need to punish businessmen for their alleged role in bringing the stock market crash of October 1929 and therefore, the Great Depression.
"America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal."DPLA. Digital Public Library of America. Web. 20 Nov 2013. .
During the 1920’s, America was a prosperous nation going through the “Big Boom” and loving every second of it. However, this fortune didn’t last long, because with the 1930’s came a period of serious economic recession, a period called the Great Depression. By 1933, a quarter of the nation’s workers (about 40 million) were without jobs. The weekly income rate dropped from $24.76 per week in 1929 to $16.65 per week in 1933 (McElvaine, 8). After President Hoover failed to rectify the recession situation, Franklin D. Roosevelt began his term with the hopeful New Deal. In two installments, Roosevelt hoped to relieve short term suffering with the first, and redistribution of money amongst the poor with the second. Throughout these years of the depression, many Americans spoke their minds through pen and paper. Many criticized Hoover’s policies of the early Depression and praised the Roosevelts’ efforts. Each opinion about the causes and solutions of the Great Depression are based upon economic, racial and social standing in America.
“Gun Control Reform.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File New Services, 28 Feb. 2011.Web Oct. 2013.
criminals do not get their guns from stores, most get them by theft or on the
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...grasp on gun control laws. Also I hope this has educated you more on the laws they want to pass, and that you can now decide if you are for or against gun control.
Coming into the 1930’s, the United States underwent a severe economic recession, referred to as the Great Depression. Resulting in high unemployment and poverty rates, deflation, and an unstable economy, the Great Depression considerably hindered American society. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated to succeed the spot of presidency, making his main priority to revamp and rebuild the United States, telling American citizens “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people," (“New” 2). The purpose of the New Deal was to expand the Federal Government, implementing authority over big businesses, the banking system, the stock market, and agricultural production. Through the New Deal, acts were passed to stimulate the
In his presidential acceptance speech in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed to the citizens of the United States, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” The New Deal, beginning in 1933, was a series of federal programs designed to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the fragile nation. The U.S. had been both economically and psychologically buffeted by the Great Depression. Many citizens looked up to FDR and his New Deal for help. However, there is much skepticism and controversy on whether these work projects significantly abated the dangerously high employment rates and pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression. The New Deal was a bad deal for America because it only provided opportunities for a few and required too much government spending.
and issues. Gun control is an effort to stop the rise in violent crime by
In the first 100 days, Roosevelt stabilized banks with the Federal Bank Holiday. In the New Deal he fought poverty with the TVA, NRA, AAA, CCC, PWA, and CWA. These policies were definitely liberal in the 1930's and because of the new programs, Roosevelt received false credit for ending the Depression. Ironically Roosevelt succeeded only a little more than Hoover in ending the Depression. Despite tripling expenditures during Roosevelt's administration, (Document F) the American economy did not recover from the Depression until World War II.
Carter, Gregg. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2012. Print.
This made it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy liquor, but in some states you could still buy beer at 18. This remained the case for the next forty years. In the early 70’s when baby boomers were dealing with the Vietnam war there was pressure to lower the drinking age, so many states (29 of them) lowered the LDA to either 18 or 19. The big argument was that if one could die in combat, why couldn’t he have a drink? But, as the baby boomers aged, there wasn’t as much support for these liberties, so by the 80’s most states went back to 21.
In "The Effectiveness of Gun Control Laws:." the authors perform a surgical operation on the various views and issues as presented by the industry concerning gun regulation. The publication outlines the laws that have been enacted by congress concerning the regulation of firearms and shows their pros and cons. The authors suggest that there needs to be a more concerted effort by the executive as well as the judiciary so be able to enforce laws concerning firearm issuing and licensing.