ABA Recommends More 'Gun Control' -
Without Evidence of Benefit

The American Bar Association (ABA) has voted to recommend American polities adopt criminal or civil penalties for people who do not "promptly" report the theft or loss of firearms. A paragraph was added to the resolution recommending the statutes, rules and regulation "include safeguards to protect a person's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination".

The ABA has championed many infringements on rights protected by the Second Amendment, starting in 1965. The ABA lists 24 years of the last 60 where they advocated for more restrictions on the ownership and use of firearms. Here is a list of the resolutions passed over the years to promote more restrictions, starting in 1965. A brief excerpt for each is included.

1965 - Amend Federal Firearms Act of 1934

..amend the Federal Firearms Act to prohibit the shipment of firearms in interstate commerce except between federally licensed manufacturers, dealers and importers; to prohibit sales by federally licensed dealers of shotguns and rifles to persons under 18 years of age, and of all other types of firearms to persons under 21 years of age;

1973 - Reaffirm Amending Federal Firearms Act

Resolved, That the American Bar Association reaffirms the position it took in 1965 recommending, in principle, the enactment of appropriate state and federal legislation providing effective control of the importation, sale, transportation and possession of firearms; …