t legally and are resold illegally inareas where handguns are outlawed. The Brady Handgun Violence Act of 1993 requires abackground check for legal sale of a handgun. It requires a five day waiting period, giving lawenforcement the opportunity to do these background checks. Only a select few are disqualifiedfrom owning guns, they are: 1.a person under indictment for, or has been convicted of a crime punishable by more thana year in prison.2. A fugitive from justice. 3. An unlawful user of any controlled substance, or a person addicted to any controlledsubstance. 4. A person who has bee adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to anymental institution. 5.A person illegally or unlawfully in the United States. 6. A person dishonorably discharged from the armed forces. 7. A citizen of the US who has given up their citizenship. 8. A person who is under court order to refrain from harassing, stalking, or threatening apartner or child. (Partial Summary 3)These regulations rule out some people but the greater majority of the population can still legallypurchase handguns. Among these people could be the mentally ill who have not been diagnosed,murders that have been acquitted of their crimes, and dishonest gun dealers looking to maximizetheir profits. New laws are starting to crack down on drunk drivers, but congress has done littleto keep handguns from falling into the wrong hands: the hands of minors, criminals, drunks, drugusers, and the mentally unstable (Long 71.) The US is the only nation which continues to allowthis terrible tragedy to continue. We are the only industrialized country that has placed feweffective regulations on handgun control and availability. In 1983, handguns were used to killthirty five people in Japan, eight in Great Britain, six in Canada, 10 in Australia, 7 in Sweden, 27in Switzerland, and 9,014 in the United States(Long 71). In the United States, the vast majorityof the population want strict...
