The Brady Bill (1994)
The Brady Bill or Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act requires a background check of any individual purchasing a firearm from a federally licensed dealer. The Brady Bill was named after James Brady a White House press secretary who was seriously injured in an assassination attempted against President Ronald Reagan in 1981. At hospital he was pronounced dead but he ended up surviving, James Brady was confined to a wheelchair for the rest if his life and pushed for the Brady Bill to be passed.
After what had happened to Brady he became apart of the gun-control legislation, he felt that there should be stricter laws against gun control in the United States. In 1987, six years after the assassination attempt they succeeded in getting the Brady Bill introduced into Congress. At first congressmen opposed to the bill because they said that it violated the second amendment, but in 1993 President Clinton supported the bill. He signed the bill on November 30, 1993 but didn't go into effect until February 28, 1994