2007 legislation
'NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007' (H.R. 2640)
STRENGTH :Legislation to strengthen the Brady background check system by increasing the reporting of state records to the NICS database.
WEAKNESS: Also establishes a 'relief from disability' program to allow persons now prohibited from possessing a firearm because they have 'been adjudicated as a mental defective' or 'committed to a mental institution' to apply to have their bar on firearms possession removed.
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TIAHRT AMENDMENT
Continues to be added to Appropriations bills.
Hinders crime and trace data information available to law enforcement to indentify trafficking of firearms.
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Ohio SB 184 & HB 264
"Shoot First" - "Make my Day" - "Castle Bill"
If a criminal defendant was suffering or about to suffer a felony offense of violence or a forcible trespass on their home :
- Provides a criminal defendant claiming self-defense with immunity from civil liability for damages
- Presumes that the accused acted properly in self-defense or in defense of a person defended by the accused
