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Originally Posted by Cedwards38

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was implemented by the US Congress in 1994 and expired in 2004. Several attempts were made to renew it, but each failed, therefore there is no ban. What am I missing?

For Lives and Liberty: Banning Assault Weapons in America | The Institute of Politics at Harvard University

Actually, I think the correct name for this legislation is, "The Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms it defined as "assault weapons," as well as certain ammunition magazines it defined as "large capacity."

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