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The proposed federal ban on assault weapons introduced in 2025, including its provisions and potential impact.
on automatic weapons ; instead the regulatory landscape is a patchwork of longstanding federal statutes, state laws, and recent court decisions that sometimes cut in opposite directions . A lone feder...
requires a Permit to Carry for public possession of a handgun, and that permit covers both concealed and open carry — the statute and state guidance do not require a handgun to be visible, nor do they...
The phrase is a politically charged, legally variable label rather than a single technical firearm category: common dictionary and government treatments use it to mean semi‑automatic firearms patterne...
Major platforms publish high‑level metrics about and enforcement — such as counts of reports to NCMEC, account suspensions, and broad categories of removals — but they generally do not publish reliabl...
labels a CyberTipline report “” through a combination of statutory standards, automated-system flags and human analysts who assess whether facts or circumstances indicate a planned or immediate threat...