Talk:Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

message: The article describes the Assault Weapons Ban as banning:
the manufacture of 19 specific semi-automatic firearms, classified as "assault weapons" (a non-technical term), as well as any semi-automatic rifle, pistol, or shotgun capable of accepting a detachable magazine, and which has two or more cosmetic features, such as a telescoping or folding stock, a pistol grip, a flash suppressor, a grenade launcher, and a bayonet lug.
The term cosmetic does not meet Wikipedia's standards for WP:NPOV. A cosmetic feature affects the appearance of a product, not its functionality. These features either allowed the user to add additional functionality to the weapon (a bayonet lug, grenade launcher, or flash suppressor) or served an ergonomic or safety purpose (pistol grip, barrel shroud). Opponents of the law may have described these features as "cosmetic" as a means of deriding the law, but it is not a neutral term.GabrielF (talk) 08:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cosmetic features 

message: To my knowledge, the ban itself was never challenged in court, and thus never upheld. (Other portions of the bill were, but not the ban). If you have a source for the ban itself being formally upheld though, I would be interested to see it. ResultingConstant (talk) 03:12, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: A ruling, from a single court,  about a different law, that is a state only law,  decade after the federal law sunset, when almost 30 years of legislative and judicial changes says very little about the earlier law, and what it does say requires a hell of a lot of WP:SYNTH and WP:OR to get there.  However, we could probably link to and WP:SUMMARIZE Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Legal_challenges which does mention some unsuccessful challenges, but note that these challenges were not under the 2A, and were also pre-Heller - therefore are not directly applicable to the sentence/section you are trying to add to which is directly talking about 2A constitutionality.   ResultingConstant (talk) 15:01, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we're better off not mentioning the NRA's motivated speculation in this summary. The bill survived multiple legal attacks and all the evidence seems to point to it having been constitutional.GliderMaven (talk) 15:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  upheld 

message: This article should talk about how the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act provided funding and grants for the building of prisons and jails to enforce the Truth in Sentencing or mandatory sentencing. That is the main cause of the mass incarceration in usa prisons and jails since 1994 Crime Bill.  In response to prison crowding and public dismay with the early release of prisoners, the U.S. Congress authorized incentive grants to build or expand correctional facilities through the Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants Program in the 1994 Crime Act (Pub.L.No. 103-322, 108 Stat. 1796 (1994)). To qualify for the truth-in-sentencing grants, States must require persons convicted of a Part 1 violent crime to serve not less than 85% of the prison sentence.  Along with other exceptions,States may qualify by demonstrating that the average time served in prison is not less than 85% of the sentence.   ( https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/tssp.pdf ) Ap4lmtree2 (talk) 21:49, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Truth in Sentencing grants 

message: Specific text to be removed: Revision 1074500791 by 137.83.19.148 (talk) at 15:58, 28 February 2022.
Reason for the change: That sentence describes an event which has not taken place and even if it had it would belong in a different article
Apologies if this isn't the best way to report this, I'm not familiar with Wikipedia's guidelines
2603:7080:F940:3B00:8089:6039:B671:FC5B (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . ––FormalDude talk 00:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism on this page 

message: I would like to see some sources included in this article which criticize criticism of the mass incarceration.2601:447:4100:1BE0:81BB:DC84:FD92:F1D7 (talk) 13:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Many People Don't Want To Acknowledge Is That It Is A Fact of Life That Incarceration Reduces Crime