"We’re introducing an updated Assault Weapons Ban for one reason: so that after every mass shooting with a military-style assault weapon, the American people will know that a tool to reduce these massacres is sitting in the Senate, ready for debate and a vote. This bill won’t stop every mass shooting, but it will begin removing these weapons of war from our streets. The first Assault Weapons Ban was just starting to show an effect when the NRA stymied its reauthorization in 2004. Yes, it will be a long process to reduce the massive supply of these assault weapons in our country, but we’ve got to start somewhere. To those who say now isn’t the time, they’re right—we should have extended the original ban 13 years ago, before hundreds more Americans were murdered with these weapons of war. To my colleagues in Congress, I say do your job."
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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat she had held since 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
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