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Assault weapon ban bill headed to Congress

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The Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will introduce legislation to ban assault weapons when Congress is back in session.

Feinstein made the declaration on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” political talk show.

The Post reported that Feinstein said “I’m going to introduce in the Senate and the same bill will be introduced in the House, a bill to ban assault weapons. It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets. So there will be a bill. We’ve been working on it now for a year.”

The Post reported that Feinstein is confident the measure will pass.

Feinstein said this past July on her website that “Weapons of war do not belong on our streets, plain and simple. I am considering how I might strengthen the Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004 and how best to move forward with that bill. In the meantime, I support other efforts including Senator Lautenberg’s bill to ban high-capacity magazines. That provision was included in the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and I hope it gains some traction in the Senate.”

After Friday’s massacre in Connecticut, Feinstein said she was “horrified and incensed by” the tragedy and that “these massacres don’t seem to stop—they continue on and on.”

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