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44 Seton Hall Legis. J. 559 (2020)
Ensuring Only "Good Guys" Can Get Guns: How Implementation of a Federal Background Check Requirement on All Firearm Transfers Can Impact Gun Violence

handle is hein.journals/sethlegj44 and id is 558 raw text is: ENSURING ONLY GOOD Guys CAN GET GUNS': How IMPLEMENTATION OF A FEDERAL BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENT ON ALL FIREARM TRANSFERS CAN IMPACT GUN VIOLENCE Brendan P. Barry* With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense .. .and it's just plain common sense that there be a waiting period to allow local law-enforcement officials to conduct background checks on those who wish to purchase handguns.2 -President Ronald Reagan I.IN TR O D U C TIO N ..............................................................................560 II. How LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE SHAPED MODERN FEDERAL FIREARM REGULATIONS. .......................................563 A. Legislative History of Federal Regulation on Firearm T ran sfers.........................................................................5 6 3 This title references the long-held rationale of gun rights lobbyists, The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun, which NRA Chief Wayne Lapierre emphatically stated at a press conference in 2012 following the Sandy Hook massacre. See Meghan Keneally, Breaking Down The NRA-Backed Theory That a Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy With a Gun, ABC NEWS (Oct. 29 2018), https://abcnews.go.com/US/breaking-nra-backed-theory-good-guy-gun- stops/story?id=53360480. Meanwhile, the NRA has continually fought legislation regulating firearm sales and ownership making it easier for Bad Guys to get guns. See generally Jose Pagliery, NRA Slams Gun-Background System Flaws It Helped Create, CNN (Feb. 14, 2018), https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/nra-criticizes-gaps-it-created-in-gun- background-system-invs/index.html. * J.D. Candidate, 2020, Seton Hall University School of Law, B.A., 2012, Providence College. I would like to thank the Seton Hall Legislative Journal for the care and detail that went into publishing this comment. A special thank you to my faculty advisor, Professor Margaret Lewis, for her guidance and support throughout the writing process. Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Emily, and my family for their patience, inspiration, and unwavering support throughout this journey. 2 Steven A. Holmes, Gun ControlBill Backed by Reagan in Appeal to Bush, THE NEW YoRK Tim, Mar. 29, 1991 at Al. In an address at George Washington University marking the 10th anniversary of John Hinckley's unsuccessful assassination attempt that left former Reagan Press secretary James Brady severely disabled, former President Reagan - a card carrying member of the NRA - endorsed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and background checks for those seeking to purchase a firearm. 559

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