[rebbryan]

like i said i gotta do a paper on gun laws w/in the past 15 years. :banghead: i can't find any websites that list the rules specifically and need some help. i don't need EVERY law. main things like what they brady bill did and the ban on auto weapons and high cap mags, etc.

any help's appreciated

[Jim March]

You're going to have to focus on one area. And the 15-year-limit sounds kinda arbitrary?

In any case: 1987 marked Florida's conversion to shall-issue CCW. I have a short but interesting article on what FL was like before that at: http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw/howardpearl.html and you should also note Clayton Cramer's comments in "The Racist Roots Of Gun Control": http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=3312 - esp. what Judge Buford had to say in Watson v. Stone 1941 FL Supremes.

Why does Florida matter? Because while "shall-issue" CCW systems had existed earlier (Indiana, WA State, others) FL pioneered the idea of linking the permit to a state-standard and mandated training course of 8 hours. Linking the gun carry permit to mandatory training proved to be THE key to getting it past state legislatures and we then managed to convert AZ, OR, VA, GA, TX, OK, UT, MI and scads of others, all with mandatory training of as little as 5 hours, as much as 16. You'll need to track down the dates of conversion, I think www.packing.org can help there.

Point is, if you concentrate on Florida's 1987 statute and show how it was copied, you have the story of how the pro-gun side's greatest successes have come. I can show you newspaper articles talking about the net effects of this sort of law:

http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw/ccweffects.html

Email me for a pile more: jmarch@prodigy.net

[Hkmp5sd]

Check the links in THIS (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2761&highlight=gun+control) thread and then check out these sites:

http://reason.com/bi/guns.shtml

http://gunscholar.com/

http://thearmedcitizen.com/

http://www.guncite.com/

[Baba Louie]

A couple of places to look might include

www.keepandbeararms.com

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2269

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2429

In addition to federal gun laws imposed by the National Firearms Act (1934), Gun Control Act (1968), Firearms Owner's Protection Act (1986), Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993), the 1994 Omnibus Crime Control Act and other laws, most states and some local jurisdictions have imposed their own firearms restrictions

http://www.nraila.org/OtherResources.asp

The other resources (link above) aren't a bad place to look as well, even if they come from the dreaded NRA.

Somewhere there was a link to the Second Amendment Foundation but I seem to have misplaced that. I'll look around some more.

State or Federal laws or both? Only US or UK/Aus/Canada as well? (Since they seem to be in the news a lot lately)

Adios

[Waitone]

The narrower the topic the easier it is to overwhelm the opposition.

Run a google on "Gun law timeline". You might get surprised.

Keep us posted.

[Elmer Snerd]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?threadid=10863