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Many people find laws hard to understand, and gathering all the relevant ones is a lot of work.
This web site helps you with these chores. Collected here in one place is information concerning many aspects of gun laws. The books published by Bloomfield Press contain much more detailed information than you will find here. Some laws and other regulations are expressed in regular conversational terms for your convenience. While great care has been taken to accomplish this with a high degree of accuracy, no guarantee of accuracy is expressed or implied, and the explanatory sections of this site are not to be considered as legal advice or a restatement of law.