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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCHUMER: This week, I will put the Assault Weapons Ban on the Senate floor.
/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==SCHUMER: This week, I will put the Assault Weapons Ban on the Senate floor.
After I led the passage of the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban 30 years ago, America saw a decrease in mass shootings and gun deaths.
We must stand with the American people and against the gun lobby.
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SCHUMER: This week, I will put the Assault Weapons Ban on the Senate floor. (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2023
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After all that's happened lately (violence against Jews), I don't see it passing
Polybius
Dec 2023
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BumRushDaShow
(134,463 posts)1. HUGE K&R
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Polybius
(16,536 posts)2. After all that's happened lately (violence against Jews), I don't see it passing
We'll see though.
Ray Bruns
(4,287 posts)3. It's not going to pass. Why is Schumer doing this?
Wasting time in my opinion. We have real financial hurdles on the horizon and this is what hes doing?
tritsofme
(17,890 posts)5. It's a messaging vote, make Republicans defend unpopular policies.
Fla Dem
(24,638 posts)4. Will be interesting to see which D's and R's support it.
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applegrove
(120,337 posts)7. So there is nobody buying or owning an AR-15 these days?
Rhiannon12866
(212,680 posts)8. How times have changed! In 1994 Bill Clinton got the AWB passed with the support of all the living former presidents
At the time, that was One Democrat and Two Republicans - Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford - and Ronald Reagan...