Abstract
This Note is organized as follows. Part I outlines the evolving history of federal firearm legislation and its relevance to registration. Part I also presents promising state-level (or equivalent) systems of gun registration that may inform a like federal policy. Part II establishes the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence and its potential application to federal firearms registration. Part III then details a lower court’s application of Supreme Court precedent to existing firearm registration laws. Finally, this Note concludes by articulating how Congress can and why it must institute a federal firearms registration system.
Recommended Citation
Dylan J. McDonough,
Locked, Loaded, and Registered: The Feasibility and Constitutionality of a Federal Firearms Registration System,
96
Notre Dame L. Rev.
1347
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol96/iss3/10