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8:25am

Fri January 18, 2013
It's All Politics

Banning Assault Weapons Now 'Much More Difficult' Than '94, Aides Say

Originally published on Tue January 29, 2013 6:36 am

Credit Marcy Nighswander / AP

President Obama's proposed renewal of a ban on assault-style weapons is expected to be based on the legislation approved by Congress in 1994 that expired 10 years later.

But when the first assault weapons ban was approved — outlawing 19 specific weapons — it was a very different time, and Congress was a very different place.

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Sun December 2, 2012

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