Guns in America
English exam project
By: [NAVN A]
Heibergskolen 9.U
May 4. 2009.
Table of Contents
Introduction3
The second amendment3
2 most important “Push and Pull” Factors3
Facts4
National Rifle Association4
The present gun law4
Purchase5
Possession6
Carrying6
Why has America got such liberal gun legislation?7
President Barack Obama’s attitude towards the second amendment and the current gun law8
Conclusion9
Links10
Introduction
Working with gun/firearms law in America is difficult because they are often changed I succeeded in finding the most present gun law in New York. The law is from January 2001-present and is a synopsis of state laws on purchase, possession and carrying of firearms. The following sections are an extract of the synopsis.
The second amendment
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” was written over two hundred years ago and was approved by the congress, 27 words whose meaning has been debated since it was published. Every word has been analyzed by some of the world’s best educated authors, history professors and lawyers, and the meaning of the second amendment can be a hundred different things.
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