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First Federal Regulation
a prohibition on the sale of handguns to private individuals through the US mail -
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Over the Years
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National Firearms Act of 1934
limiting access to machine guns, submachine guns, and sawed off shotguns -
Federal Firearms Act of 1938
Treasury Department has control over the licensing of gun dealers, importers, and manufacturers. -
Omnibus Gun Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
banning all shipment of handguns across state lines to individuals and also limited the purchase of handguns to the state where the purchaser resided -
Gun Control Act of 1968
banned the interstate shipment of long guns (rifles and shot guns) as well as ammunition, and also prohibited the sale of guns to minors, drug addicts, mental incompetents, and convicted felons -
The Firearms Protection Act of 1986
authorized interstate sales of rifles and shotguns as long as the sale was legal in both the states of the buyer and seller -
Assault Weapons Ban of 1994