Assault Weapons and Congressional Action.

Provides background on the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994, which prohibits manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity ammunition feeding devices. Identifies and evaluates recent statistics on traced firearms, describes...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1996.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Provides background on the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994, which prohibits manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity ammunition feeding devices. Identifies and evaluates recent statistics on traced firearms, describes efforts to measure effectiveness of the ban, and provides chronology of related policy actions.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
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