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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (57806)2/23/2018 7:44:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 363421
 
Assault weapons were banned at the time. Did that make a difference in Columbine? We'll never know.

Federal Assault Weapons Ban

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB)—officially, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act—is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms it defined as assault weapons, as well as certain ammunition magazines it defined as " large capacity".


The ten-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on September 13, 1994, following a close 52–48 vote in the Senate, and signed into law by then President Bill Clinton the same day.
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