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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...
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    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...
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  • Assault weapons ban may refer to: Assault weapons legislation in the United States Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, an unsuccessful legislative bill from April...
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    restrict assault weapons. When the now-defunct Federal Assault Weapons Ban was passed in 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice said, "In general, assault weapons...
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    new ban, such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013). Ten U.S. states have assault weapons bans: three were enacted before the 1994 federal ban, four...
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    register such weapons with the California DOJ by a deadline established in the assault weapons ban legislation. Transfer of registered assault weapons to private...
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  • Gun control after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from April 2013)
    16, 2013, President Obama announced a plan for reducing gun violence in four parts: closing background check loopholes; banning assault weapons and high-capacity...
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  • Roberti–Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 (AWCA) is a California law that bans the ownership and transfer of over 50 specific brands and models of firearms...
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  • 2009 to 2017, he and former president Barack Obama proposed the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Retailers...
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    Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 included limits regarding magazines that could hold more than ten rounds. As of 2022, twelve U.S. states, and a number of...
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    Joyce Lee Malcolm (category American scholars of constitutional law)
    The following year, she told PBS NewsHour that she thought the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 was unconstitutional because recent Supreme Court decisions had...
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    gov. Retrieved 2016-07-25. Feinstein, Dianne (January 24, 2013). "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013". senate.gov. Retrieved May 25, 2014. Newcomb, Alyssa (March...
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    emerged since its founding such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, the Connecticut assault weapons ban of 2013, the New York SAFE Act, and numerous other...
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    TEC-9 (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1984)
    United States, among the 19 firearms banned by name in the now-expired 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB). This ban forced Intratec to cease their manufacture...
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    Passes Assault Weapons Ban", Skokie Patch. Retrieved July 28, 2013. McCarthy, Ciara (July 16, 2013). "Evanston Aldermen Approve Assault Weapons Ban as State...
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    the United States for dangerous-weapon offenders, and added over 100 types of guns to the state's assault weapons ban. Pro-gun groups had rallied outside...
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    comply with the NY SAFE Act, which bans firearms that it defines as assault weapons, unless they were owned prior to the ban and registered by April 15, 2014...
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    for the purchase of firearms and ammunition; and a ban (with exceptions) on certain semi-automatic firearms defined as "assault weapons" and magazines that...
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    number of rounds that are allowed by law in a particular jurisdiction. For example, in the United States, the now-expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994...
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    Franchi SPAS-12 (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1979)
    United States Federal Assault Weapons Ban, imports of SPAS-12 shotguns to the United States were stopped. In September 2004 the ban expired, but Franchi...
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  • legislation that would ban the ownership of "military-style assault weapons" in a mandatory gun buyback program, and impose restrictions banning the sale, purchase...
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    Colt AR-15 (category Semi-automatic rifles of the United States)
    AR-pattern rifles as assault weapons by name, thus illegal to own/possess in the state of California. New Jersey passed its own assault weapon ban in 1990, becoming...
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    back to the weapons it intended to replace. The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War exposed the limitations of the Type 56 carbine and Type 56 assault rifle, prompting...
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  • depending on seller and venue. Federal Assault Weapons Ban (1994–2004): Banned semiautomatics that looked like assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding...
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  • group endorsed the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. In 2014 AzGS filed an Amicus Curiae for the Appellee in the case of Heller v. District of Columbia. AzGS was...
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    instances of violent crime, the Act expanded federal law in several ways. One of the most noted sections was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Other parts of the...
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  • Hi-Point carbine (category Semi-automatic rifles of the United States)
    Weapons Ban, the Hi-Point carbine comes with a ten-round magazine that fits into the pistol grip. With the expiration of the federal assault weapons ban in...
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    AR-15–style rifle (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1956)
    AR-15–style rifles. Some versions of the AR-15 were classified as "assault weapons" and banned under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 within the United...
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    Daewoo Precision Industries K2 assault rifle is the standard service rifle of the South Korean military. It was developed by the South Korean Agency for...
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  • Reactions to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (category Use mdy dates from June 2013)
    Legislation introduced in the first session of 113th Congress included the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013) and the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand...
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