Dems introduce bill banning assault weapons

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6. Had a ban until 2004 . It would of helped a lot if it wasn't allowed to expire imo

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Between May 2003 and June 2008, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, and Representatives Michael Castle, R-DE, Alcee Hastings, D-FL, and Mark Kirk, R-IL, introduced bills to reauthorize the ban.
During the same time, Senator Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, and Representative Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY, introduced similar bills to create a new ban with a revised definition for assault weapons. None of the bills left committee

After the November 2008 election, the website of President-elect Barack Obama listed a detailed agenda for the forthcoming administration. The stated positions included "making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent." Three months later, newly sworn-in Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated the Obama administration's desire to reinstate the ban. The mention came in response to a question during a joint press conference with DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart, discussing efforts to crack down on Mexican drug cartels. Attorney General Holder said: "... there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons."

Efforts to pass a new federal assault weapons ban were made in December 2012 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.[44][45][46] On January 24, 2013, Senator Feinstein introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013).[47] The bill was similar to the 1994 ban, but differed in that it would not expire after 10 years,[46] and it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the defunct ban.[48] The GOP Congressional delegation from Texas, and the NRA, condemned Feinstein's bill.[49] On March 14, 2013, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a version of the bill along party lines.[50] On April 17, 2013, AWB 2013 failed on a Senate vote of 40 to 60.