Violent Crime Control and

Under federal law, silencers are treated in the same category as automatic weapons. Armor-piercing ammunition (popularly called cop-killer bullets) were banned in 1986, with an expanded definition of banned bullets in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that includes bullets made of tungsten, beryllium, depleted uranium, and other exotic materials. Other accessories can also cause a weapon to be banned (see Assault Weapons above). 

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 made further changes to the system. License holders are now photographed and fingerprinted and are required to comply with applicable state and local laws. Dealers must report any thefts of weapons within 48 hours and must immediately respond to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Ttibacco, and Firearms requests for firearm traces. 

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). 

Gun Control Act of 1968 U.S. v. Warin Gun Free School Zones Act U.S. v. Lopez Omnibus Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act of 1994 U.S. V. Fmerson... 

Another big victory for gun control advocates came in 1994 with the passage of the Violent Crime Control Act, which banned the manufacture, sale, and import of a large variety of semiautomatic weapons such as the Uzi, Tec-9, and similar copycat weapons. The list of banned weapons was later expanded, but weapons manufactured or imported before the ban... 

Worsnop, Richard L. Gun Control Will It Help Reduce Violent Crime in the U.S. CQ Researcher, vol. 4, June 10, 1994, pp. 507ff. Introduces the debate over gun control as it focuses on the assault weapons ban debated in Congress in 1994. The article also includes discussion of political, social, and criminological aspects, as well as sidebars on specific gun topics. 

Kovandzic, Tbmislav V., and Thomas B. Marvell. Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns and Violent Crime Crime Control through Gun Decontrol Criminohg and Public Policy, vol. 2, July 2003, pp. 363-396. The authors were unahle to find a statistically significant correlation in 58 Florida counties from 1980 to 2000 between the number of concealed carry permits issued and a reduction in violent crime. 

A Finnish birth cohort study found that schizophrenic men were 3.6 times more likely to commit violent crimes than controls, and individuals with other types of psychoses were 7.7 times more likely to commit violent acts (Rasamem et al. 1998). 

In 1996, Congress passed the Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act of 1996, which increased the federal penalties for those who used any controlled substance to aid them in sexual assault. This law makes it a punishable crime to give someone a controlled substance without that person s knowledge of it and with the intent to commit a violent crime against that person. It also includes stiffer penalties for those who possess or distribute this drug. 

According to published reports, Rohypnol was first used to commit date rape in 1993. In 1996, President Clinton signed the Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act. This legislation provides for prison sentences of up to 20 years for anyone possessing a controlled substance with the intent to commit a violent crime, including rape, by secretly drugging someone else. 

The Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act of 1996 provides criminal penalties of up to 20 years imprisonment for any person who distributes a controlled substance, such as Rohypnol, to another person with the intent to commit a violent crime. The act does not criminalize any new conduct in that the distribution of a controlled substance is already a federal crime. It does, however, establish the basis for harsher penalties under federal law if the distribution facilitates a violent crime. 

Illicit use has also fallen in the U.S. due to the Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment act of 1996, making it punishable to commit a violent crime using a controlled substance such as flunitrazepam... 

Peck (1987) described a patient who was regularly beaten by his father as a child. As a result of his re-enactment, his chosen career was as a homicide detective, where he sought out the most violent crimes. Kets de Vries (1989), in a psychodynamic analysis of famous business leaders, suggests a frequent occurrence of absentee fathers (physical or emotional). The desire to be a leader/manager expresses the desire to become your own father and raise yourself again the right way , with total control over the events. It is hypothesized that this is why control is such an issue for these managers. This is... 

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