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He carved out a role shaping laws like the federal assault-weapons ban, the Violence Against Women Act, the 1992 Anti-Auto Theft Act, which required manufacturers to put ID numbers on car parts to make them easier to track.
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"And if I wanted to get something symbolic -- and we are going to reintroducing the assault-weapons ban and that's wonderful -- it won't go anywhere."
Leading Republican To Introduce Strict Gun Control Legislation Ryan Grim 2011
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"And if I wanted to get something symbolic -- and we are going to reintroducing the assault-weapons ban and that's wonderful -- it won't go anywhere."
Leading Republican To Introduce Strict Gun Control Legislation Ryan Grim 2011
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The bloggers theorized that the ATF wanted high numbers to gain support for an assault-weapons ban.
ATF's tactics to end gun trafficking face a federal review 2011
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He carved out a role shaping laws like the federal assault-weapons ban, the Violence Against Women Act, the 1992 Anti-Auto Theft Act, which required manufacturers to put ID numbers on car parts to make them easier to track.
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Advocates like Rand say the failure to nominate a director reflects the administration's larger fear of tackling any firearms issue -- like reinstating the assault-weapons ban -- that might rile the gun lobby.
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Obama campaigned on a modest set of control policies (like reviving the assault-weapons ban), and he hasn't taken action on any of them, recently earning an Ffrom the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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Among the restrictions likely to be in play are assault-weapons bans, registration rules and state laws that give governments permission to suspend certain gun rights in emergencies.
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Mr. Cannon claimed his group was responsible for advancing gun rights in California by discovering an obscure legal path to circumvent the state assault-weapons ban without breaking the law.
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Rudy in 1995, bemoaning the national Republican Party's position against gun control, boasting of how gun control laws can help accomplish a drop in crime, and blasting the National Rifle Association for opposing the assault-weapons ban, which he called "instruments of mass destruction":
Why Is Rudy Skipping Debate? His YouTube Greatest Hits May Explain All! 2009
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