TY - BOOK ID - 146308491 TI - The assault weapons ban : review of federal laws controlling possession of certain firearms AU - Schrader, Dorothy. AU - Library of Congress. PY - 1995 PB - [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, DB - UniCat KW - Assault weapons KW - Firearms KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146308491 AB - This report reviews the 1994 assault weapons ban, which is effective for ten years on 19 types of semiautomatic assault weapons. The Act builds upon a 60-year history of federal regulation of firearms. The report also summarizes the pre-1994 federal gun control laws, analyzes the major cases relating to constitutional and statutory challenges to these laws, and reviews judicial and legislative developments since enactment of the ban. ER -