why won't we get an answer... you are blaming the rep's, i didn't see the dem's do shit... so i guess those motherfuckers also ain't open to change...
that isn't really the picture if you look back a little further
TL;DR
Dems (Biden included) banned assault rifles and extended magazines, Repubs allowed it to expired and have been preventing any legislation ever since.
1994 DEM President Clinton
Twenty five years ago, when Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban.
It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more.
In his Times op-ed, Biden salutes the senator often credited as the architect of the 1994 ban, Dianne Feinstein of California. Then, in just her second year as a senator, Feinstein took over as chief sponsor of a bill originally offered by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum in 1989 after a mass shooting on a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif.
That shooting took the lives of five children and injured 28 others and a teacher.
Feinstein's resolve to carry this legislation forward was bolstered when eight more people were killed and six injured in another California horror, this time at a law firm in San Francisco.
2004 REP President Bush
Republicans by then had held the House throughout the period and the Senate for all but 18 months. The GOP had just increased its numbers in both chambers in the midterm elections of 2002, a political season dominated by anxiety after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The sunset provision came and ended the ban.
Feinstein and others made numerous efforts to restore the ban that year and over the next several years.
2009 DEM President Obama
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 he made renewing the ban part of his agenda. Efforts were mounted again after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012, but none bore fruit.
The attempt to reinstate the ban after Sandy Hook attracted 12 fewer votes in the Senate than Feinstein had mustered in an attempt to renew the ban in 2004.
2016 REP President Trump
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,”
lol
2020 DEM President Biden
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The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire
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