New Compendium of U.S. Gun Laws

A group called Legal Community Against Violence, a San Francisco-based public interest law centre dedicated to preventing gun violence, has just released a comprehensive overview of U.S. federal and state laws on gun control.

The report looks at gun laws in a number of broad areas: classes of weapons, restrictions on sales and transfers, gun dealers, gun ownership, consumer and child safety, and crime detection (ballistic identification, retention of sales records, background checks).

Last December, I wrote a post on my blog Library Boy entitled Gun Control Resources that provided links to Canadian and international resources (Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, etc.) on gun laws.