Democrats push for 1st semi-automatic gun ban in 20 years.
The original ban passed in 1994, led by then-Sen. Joe Biden, and banned certain semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines, though it exempted an estimated 1.5 million of those weapons and 25 million that were already owned by Americans.
“An assault weapon’s only purpose is to kill people efficiently,” Nadler, D-NY., said Wednesday as the committee took up the measures. “It is time to protect our communities and to ban them once more.”2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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