#firearm law

[crashout-cain]

Could someone explain to me how Luigi Mangione can be charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a firearm, all for having one weapon? This is a legit question, I don't understand this

[fbinicsystem]

A new poll conducted by American analytics company Gallup showed that support for stricter gun laws is now at its lowest point. The figure dropped to almost half just three years after the deadly m…

[javariscrittenton-blog]

example of a rifled musket from the land wars period, personalized with traditional designs. part of the auckland war memorial museum collection

[javariscrittenton-blog]

It is evident that they [the Māori population] dislike a popular government in which for the present they can have no share, and they are dissatisfied with the law which prevents their purchasing spirits, arms and gunpowder. The effect, indeed, of this law is questionable, for I learn that both spirits and arms are smuggled in large quantities, and that the natives as a body are almost universally armed.

Governor Thomas Gore Browne, in 1855

[javariscrittenton-blog]

I found, as the civil authorities described, excitement at the highest; the native mind inflamed to a great degree; the pahs in a state of defence; and the Maori population completely armed, not only when travelling on the roads or labouring in the fields, but even when bartering in the town.

Taranaki in 1855, as written by Acting Governor George Wynyard