1. Citizen Rights and Gun Control Laws
... to track or confiscate firearms. Take Rockland County, New York for example. Journal News, a local newspaper, accessed public records to obtain the name and address of every handgun owner in the county. They then proceeded to post this information on their website for the entire world to see (Kopel ... America. We are actually fairly late to the gun registration party. For example, in the late 1990's, Great Britain passed a law banning firearms after a massive tragedy occurred. They used gun registration lists to confiscate every handgun or semi-automatic long gun in the country. Gun regi...
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