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The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...
The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ...
In January 1989, 34 children and a teacher were shot in Stockton California.The gunman used a semi automatic AK-47 firearm; five children perished. [10] [11] [12]: 10 President George H.W. Bush banned all imports of semi automatic rifles in March 1989, [13] and made the ban permanent in July 1989. [14]
DENVER (AP) — A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre.
(The Center Square) – Legislation that would ban the sale or purchase of semi-automatic firearms that take detachable magazines is set to be heard in the Colorado Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill ...
By Derek Draplin | The Center Square contributor (The Center Square) – The Democratic-led Colorado Senate approved a bill early Friday to ban semi-automatic firearm sales in the state after ...
The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...
Colorado's Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was ...