Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
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| Full title | To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes. |
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| Acronym | AWB 2013 |
| Introduced in | 113th United States Congress |
| Introduced on | January 24, 2013 |
| Sponsored by | Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) |
| Number of co-sponsors | 20 |
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| Act(s) affected |
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Higher Education Act of 1965 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 |
| U.S.C. section(s) affected | 18 U.S.C. § 922, 18 U.S.C. § 921, 18 U.S.C. § 924, 20 U.S.C. § 1070 et seq. 18 U.S.C. § 925A, and others. |
| Agencies affected |
United States Department of Justice United States Congress |
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The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress as S. 150 by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on January 24, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the Senate on April 17, 2013 by a vote of 40 to 60.
Efforts to create a new federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB 1994) were renewed on December 14, 2012, when 20 children and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. At the time, it was the deadliest primary or secondary school shooting, the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single person, and one of the 25 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
Within hours of the shooting, a We the People user started a petition asking the White House to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress." That afternoon, President Barack Obama made a televised statement offering condolences on behalf of the nation to Connecticut governor, Dannel Malloy and saying, "we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics." Speaking at a December 16 memorial service in Newtown, Obama said he would "use whatever power this office holds" to prevent similar tragedies. By December 17, the White House petition had more than 150,000 signatures, and one week after the shooting it had almost 200,000, along with those on 30 similar petitions.
On December 21, 2012, Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), expressed the gun-rights group's sympathy for the families of Newtown. He said, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," and that debating legislation that won't work would be a waste of time.
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