Assault weapons bans state

The following states ban all or some types of assault weapons California, Connecticut and New Jersey, as well as some jurisdictions in New fork and Ohio. (Hawaii bans assault pistols. ) A number of cities have their own assault weapons bans. These include Albany, New York Atlanta, Georgia Berkeley, California Cleveland, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Denver, Colorado (ban on sale) Los Angeles, California and New York City. 

There were three major issues (1) Did the assault weapons ban violate the state constitution s guarantee of the right of a person to bear arms in defense of himself and the state (2) Did the ban violate equal protection principles by treating gun owners differently based on hard-to-distinguish characteristics of their weapons (3) Was the law an unconstitutional bill of... 

If the approach shown by the Connecticut court continues to predominate, a carefully written state assault weapons ban is likely to withstand all legal challenges. 

Metaksa, Tanya K. Constitutional Quake Rocks California Gun Ban. American Rifleman, vol. 146, May 1998, p. 44. Reports on a California district court decision that prevents the state attorney general from adding new firearms to the state assault weapons ban. The court said the existing procedure was arbitrary and failed to provide due process. 

A number of laws regulate the importing of firearms. The Mutual Security Act of 1954 (P.L. No. 83-665) led to the establishment of import controls under the Office of Munitions Control of the Department of State. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (P.L. No. 90-351) together with the Gun Control Act of 1968 banned the import of Saturday night specials and restricted imports of automatic weapons. Further restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons were added by the Omnibus Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act of 1994 (P.L. No. 103-322). 

The Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen, a group of gun clubs, as well as some gun manufacturers and dealers, sued the governor of New Jersey to overturn the state s ban on assault weapons. This law specified particular makes and models of semiautomatic weapons that could no longer be possessed, but guns that were substantially identical to the listed guns could also be banned. (This was an attempt to prevent manufacturers from simply changing model names or making minor cosmetic modifications in order to get around the ban.)... 

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