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The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress as S. 150 by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on January 24, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the Senate on April 17, 2013 by a vote of 40 to 60.
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 ...
In May 1990, New Jersey became the second state in the U.S. to pass an assault weapons ban, after California. At the time, it was the most restrictive assault weapons ban in the nation. [72] AR-15 semi-automatic rifles are illegal in New Jersey, and owning and publicly carrying other guns require separate licensing processes. [73]
The House passed legislation that would ban assault weapons for the first time since 2004, in a sign that Democrats intend to pursue more aggressive gun bills.
House Bill 7217 to ban the possession, sale, and transfer of firearms defined as "assault weapons," with exceptions for those who already possess a legally obtained assault weapon when the ...
Last session, an assault weapons ban failed to advance in the Senate after passage in the House. That bill listed dozens of makes and models it would ban. A similar bill also failed in the House ...
On January 24, 2013, Senator Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013). [24] [25] It was similar to the expired 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to be considered an assault weapon, rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [26]
Dec. 11—The Legislature is poised to consider an assault weapons ban that will be mirrored after legislation U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich helped introduce in Congress last week, Gov. Michelle Lujan ...