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An American law, the confusingly named Firearm Owners Protection Act prohibits the transfer or sale of any "machine gun" whose date of manufacture was after 1986 in addition to several other provisions.

One of the law's provisions was that persons traveling from one state to another for a shooting sports event or any other lawful activity cannot be arrested for a firearms offense in a state that has strict gun control laws if the traveler is just passing through the more restrictive state and the firearms and ammunition are securely locked and unloaded and not immediately accessible to the owner of the firearms in question.

The older Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits firearms ownership in the United States of America by certain broad categories of individuals thought to pose a threat to public safety. However, this list differed between the House and the Senate versions of the bill, and led to great confusion. This list was later augmented, modified, and clarified in the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The 1986 list is:

  • Anyone who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year.
  • Anyone who is a fugitive from justice.
  • Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance.
  • Anyone who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to a mental institution.
  • Any alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States or an alien admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa.
  • Anyone who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions.
  • Anyone having been a citizen of the United states, has renounced his or her citizenship.
  • Anyone that is subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an *intimate partner or child of such intimate partner.
  • Anyone who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
  • A person who is under indictment or information for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one *year cannot lawfully receive a firearm. Such person may continue to lawfully possess firearms obtained prior to the indictment or information.

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 created a national background check system to prevent firearms sales to such "prohibited persons."

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