Event Title
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 10:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 11:00 AM
Project Type
Poster- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
After the mass shooting at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California on January 17, 1989, pressure to create stricter national regulations on assault weapons intensified significantly, leading to the creation of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that went into place in 1994.
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Economics Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
713
Federal Assault Weapons Ban and Violent Crime
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
After the mass shooting at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California on January 17, 1989, pressure to create stricter national regulations on assault weapons intensified significantly, leading to the creation of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that went into place in 1994.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/466