Talk:Gun law

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Contents 1 International perspective 2 Constitutional review 3 Expansion 4 Merge into Gun Politics 5 Canada Section 6 International

[edit] International perspective

I added a paragraph about Dutch gun law, to provide an example of how firearms are regulated in a (hopefully fairly) typical European country.

[edit] Constitutional review

The article used to say that gun laws (presumably the author meant bills) are subject to judicial review when they are drafted. I know of only one country that applies some form of formal judicial review to bills as they are being passed, and it is France, no the US. In the US, laws are usually challenged after they have been turned into acts, at the point when they become relevant to some actual court case. (Of course drafters of bills are often well aware of what the courts are likely to say about them, so there is an entirely informal form of pressure on them not to propose and pass bills that are immediately invalidated.)

[edit] Expansion

This article is in desperate need of expansion. Some topics to cover, at least as a summery with a link to a main article on the subject, include:

• Gun control laws
• Gun licensing laws
• Gun registration laws
• Concealed weapons laws
• Gun safety laws
• Gun manufacturer regulations/laws
• Gun sale restrictions and mandated background checks. (i.e. no sale to felons, age-based restrictions, etc.)

--Cab88 00:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge into Gun Politics

I am recommending merging this into Gun Politics, please discuss it on the talk page for Gun Politics. GuyFromChicago 14:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC) - remove my suggestion on this. This article has decent content now. GuyFromChicago 23:48, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canada Section

Does anybody think a section on Canadain Gun law is worthwhile? I can write one if so. Cavell 05:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely. Any additional content beyond the U.S. is much needed. Thernlund 00:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

i r not str8

[edit] International

As well as including more non-US content, I think most of the US content needs to be moved to its own page, and reduced to a couple of paragraphs here. If every country had a section as long as the American one, this page would reach a ridiculous length. --Helenalex 22:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the US stuff to Gun law in the United States. I've since discovered a whole lot of other pages on US gun law which make me think the page I created should be a whole lot broader rather than just dealing with federal law. However this is something I know next to nothing about, so I will leave that to the argumentative folks who work on the other gun law pages... --Helenalex 07:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)