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The Supreme Court Invalidates the ATF’s Bump-Stock Ban
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-20 · Posts · 2,735 words · PDF available
Congressional interest in “bump-stock” devices—accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles effectively to mimic the firing capabilities of a fully automatic weapon—grew after authorities discovered th...
Stafford Act Declarations for Extreme Heat
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-20 · Posts · 1,022 words · PDF available
The United States has experienced record-setting high temperatures thus far in 2024, continuing a trend observed in 2023—the hottest year on record, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Adm...
The Biden Administration’s Proclamation and Rule, Securing the Border, and DHS Operational Constraints
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-20 · Posts · 1,023 words · PDF available
Citing record high levels of enforcement encounters at the Southwest land border (SWB), President Biden signed a Presidential Proclamation on June 3, 2024, that suspends and limits the entry of certai...
What Time Is It for the ACCA?: Supreme Court Clarifies When State Drug Offenses Qualify as “Serious Drug Offenses”
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-20 · Posts · 1,179 words · PDF available
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment when a person convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm has three or more prior violent felony or serious drug ...
Strengthening America’s defense industrial base
Brookings Institution · 2024-06-20 · Article · 2,874 words · PDF available
A laissez-faire attitude on the part of the U.S. government toward America’s defense industrial base is no longer enough.