Senate Judiciary Committee votes to reinstate assault weapons ban

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The Senate judiciary committee, by a vote of 10-8, has approved renewal of a national ban on assault weapons in the US. More specifically, the legislation would ban 157 kinds of semi-automatic weapons, guns that automatically reload, and large-capacity ammunition magazines carrying more than 10 rounds. It would not apply to guns that are already lawfully owned. The bill will now go to the Senate to be debated. If the narrow vote by which it was approved in the Senate judiciary committee is any indication, it will be an uphill battle to get it passed in the Senate.

“The road is uphill. I fully understand that,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, the sponsor of the bill, after its passage in the committee. “My passion comes from what I’ve seen on the streets,” she said, adding, “I cannot get out of my mind trying to find the pulse in someone and putting my fingers in a bullet hole.”

“I respect your conviction,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas, one of the bill’s opponents, said to Ms. Feinstein. “I hope we continue to work on that and improve it,” he said. He rejected the assault weapons ban, he said, as it would jeopardize the “self-defense rights of law abiding citizens.”

 

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