After the assassinations of President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Gun Control Act is passed and imposes stricter licensing and regulation on the firearms industry, establishes new categories of firearms offenses, and prohibits the sale of firearms and ammunition to felons and certain other prohibited persons.

June 19, 2026 - The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA or GCA68) is a U.S. federal law that regulates the firearms industry and firearms ownership. Due to constitutional limitations, the Act is primarily based on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except ...

Text for H.R.17735 - 90th Congress (1967-1968): Gun Control Act of 1968

October 22, 1968 · To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for better control of the · [H. R. 17735] interstate traffic in firearms. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati'ves of the · United States of America in Congress assenwled, That this Act may · ^Q"* be cited as the "Gun Control Act of 1968".

The Gun Control Act of 1968 is federal legislation that regulates the manufacture, sale, and purchase of firearms in the United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson established this act after a series of firearm-related assassinations of national ...

August 4, 2025 - In January 1967 he introduced a similar bill, designed to increase fees and the regulation of firearms dealers and impose a federal minimum age requirement for handguns and long guns. Better known as the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968, it passed in the Senate in May 1968 and by the House of Representatives on June 6, the day after the assassination of Robert F.

January 21, 2020 - The 1968 Gun Control Act and subsequent amendments codified at 18 U.S.C. § 921 et seq. prohibit anyone convicted of a felony and anyone subject to a domestic violence protective order from possessing a firearm.

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A structural model of the criminal choice-criminal justice system allowed the isolation of the act's impact on homicide rates and the opportunity to examine the interaction between handgun acquisition and homicide rates. This analysis reaffirmed that the Gun Control Act did not have a statistically or numerically significant impact on homicide levels.

December 12, 2023 - A historian explains how the U.S. was able to enact a federal gun control law in 1968, and why such a law would be hard to pass today

Following the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA). The GCA, as amended over the years, continues to be the primary vehicle for the federal regulation of firearms.

We have come here to the Cabinet Room today to sign the most comprehensive gun control law ever signed in this Nation's history. Some of you may be interested in knowing-really-what this bill does: --It stops murder by mail order.

December 12, 2023 - It also defined a group of people, including convicted felons, who could not purchase guns, and mandated that gun sellers keep customer records. The FFA was repealed in 1968 by the Gun Control ...

Gun Control Act of 1968: By imposing restrictions like age limits, interstate handgun sales bans, and criteria for gun ownership based on mental health and criminal records, this act set a precedent for federal overreach into what should be ...

December 28, 2020 - The bill disqualifies a person who “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution,” from purchasing a gun.

December 20, 2025 - The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 ... thereof. The Gun Control Act of 1968 added a weapon that may be readily converted to do so and changed “part or parts” to only a frame or receiver....

May 8, 2026 - Guns are the only consumer product manufactured in the United States that are not subject to federal health and safety regulation. This unique exemption has allowed the firearms industry to innovate for lethality rather than safety.

3 weeks ago - In 1989, the George H. W. Bush administration banned the importation of foreign-made, semiautomatic rifles deemed not to have "a legitimate sporting use". It did not affect similar but domestically manufactured rifles. (The Gun Control Act of 1968 gives discretion to the Attorney General of the United States to choose whether to "authorize a firearm or ammunition to be imported or brought into the United States", under what is known as "the sporting purposes test".) Following the enactment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, the ATF determined that "certain semiautomatic assault rifles could n

“That this Act [enacting sections 5822, 5871 and 5872 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, amending this section, sections 922 to 928 of this title, and Appendix to this title, and sections 5801, 5802, 5811, 5812, 5821, 5841 to 5849, 5851 to 5854, 5861, 6806, and 7273 of Title 26, repealing sections 5692 and 6107 of Title 26, omitting sections 5803, 5813, 5814, 5831, 5855, and 5862 of Title 26, and enacting material set out as notes under this section and Appendix to this title, and section 5801 of Title 26] may be cited as the ‘Gun Control Act of 1968’.”

The Gun Control Act of 1968 is a U.S. federal law that regulates the firearms industry and firearms ownership. Due to constitutional limitations, the Act is primarily based on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except by manufacturers, dealers and importers licensed under a scheme set up under the Act.