ABSTRACT
The publications of antigun groups cannot match the National Rifle Association in volume or intensity. The two principal sources of this literature are the National Coalition to Ban Handguns and Handgun Control. Involvement of the presidency with the issue of gun control has occurred primarily on a symbolic level; that is, presidents periodically have expressed their views on the subject but rarely have played an active role in gun-related policymaking. The key provisions of the Omnibus Act were incorporated into the Gun Control Act of 1968, the second enactment of the year. Repeated efforts were made throughout the years to weaken the 1968 gun law. Courts initiate change in social regulatory policy and shift legal jurisdiction from the states to the federal government. Gun control does not immediately conjure up this image of judicial activism because the Second Amendment has not been centrally involved in fundamental rights adjudication.
