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applegrove

(120,337 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 04:19 AM Dec 2023

SCHUMER: This week, I will put the Assault Weapons Ban on the Senate floor.


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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 OP
HUGE K&R BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #1
After all that's happened lately (violence against Jews), I don't see it passing Polybius Dec 2023 #2
It's not going to pass. Why is Schumer doing this? Ray Bruns Dec 2023 #3
It's a messaging vote, make Republicans defend unpopular policies. tritsofme Dec 2023 #5
Will be interesting to see which D's and R's support it. Fla Dem Dec 2023 #4
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So there is nobody buying or owning an AR-15 these days? applegrove Dec 2023 #7
How times have changed! In 1994 Bill Clinton got the AWB passed with the support of all the living former presidents Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 #8

Ray Bruns

(4,287 posts)
3. It's not going to pass. Why is Schumer doing this?
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 12:18 PM
Dec 2023

Wasting time in my opinion. We have real financial hurdles on the horizon and this is what he’s doing?

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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
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 05:19 AM
Dec 2023

At the time, that was One Democrat and Two Republicans - Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford - and Ronald Reagan...



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