Foreword
Starting with the first major Federal firearms legislation — the National Firearms Act of 1934, enacted to curb Prohibition-era crime by taking certain lethal weapons out of the hands of gangsters — congressional action on gun con-trol has peaked following prominent acts of violence. After the 1934 law, the next key statute to be passed was the Gun Control Act of 1968, which came in response to the Kennedy and King assassinations and urban unrest during the 1960s. Enactment of the Brady bill in 1993 represented the culmination of a campaign for stricter gun measures that followed the assassination attempt…
