President Biden wants Congress to enact a federal ban on “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines” just like the one he helped pass in 1994.
Biden said on Twitter Wednesday evening that he was “determined” to see through such a ban and called on Congress to “finish the job.”
“I am determined to once again ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” the president wrote. “I led that fight in 1994. For the ten years it was in place, mass shootings went down.”
He added: “Let’s finish the job and ban assault weapons.”
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President Biden delivering remarks at the Boys and Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley on March 14, 2023, in Monterey Park, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Biden’s tweet referenced the 1994 law that enacted a 10-year ban on the manufacture, transfer or possession of “semiautomatic assault weapons” (SAWs) and “large capacity ammunition feeding devices” (LCAFD). It formally…
