President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he was looking to reinstate a ban on “assault weapons” in response to the recent mass shootings, but crime data show that handguns are used most often in such situations.
The president’s call to ban assault weapons came after 10 people, including an officer of the law, were murdered in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday.
Biden called for a ban on “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” similar to the one he worked to pass while in the Senate.
“I got that done as a senator. It brought down mass shootings, we can do it again,”…
