The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, is an amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, the act is often referred to as "the Lautenberg Amendment" after its sponsor, Senator Frank Lautenberg, was a United States Senator, and member of the Democratic Party, from which state?
Frank Lautenberg Frank Raleigh Lautenberg ( ; January 23, 1924 June 3, 2013) was a United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey.
Increased Penalties Act The Increased Penalties Act was a bill that increased the penalties for violating prohibition. Enacted on March 2, 1929, it is also called the "Jones–Stalker Act" or the "Jones Act". The legislation was sponsored by two Republicans, Sen. Wesley L. Jones of Washington and Rep. Gale H. Stalker of New York City. It stipulated that wherever any penalty was prescribed for the illegal manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation of intoxicating liquor as defined in the Volstead Act of 1919, the penalty imposed for each such offense should be a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years, or both. The Act did not repeal any minimum penalties then prescribed by law. It further declared that it was the intent of Congress that the courts in passing sentence should discriminate between "casual and slight" violations and habitual sales of intoxicating liquor or attempts to commercialize violations of the law.