abiding adj
[memory] durable
[interest, love, passion] durable → The experience left him with an abiding interest in the Muslim world. → Football was her abiding interest. → At his first overseas post, Nairobi, he acquired his abiding love for Africa. → an amiable man with an abiding passion for cricket an abiding sense of loyalty un irréductible sens de la loyauté → He had an abiding sense of fairness. → The Japanese have an abiding sense of guilt about the war → even now he carries with him an abiding sense of loss.
law-abiding
adj respectueux(-euse) des lois
→ Gun ownership by law-abiding people was not a problem.