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An '''assault weapons ban''' is a form of ]. In the ], seven states have ]s bans. The ] (AWB 1994) expired in 2004 and is now defunct. Attempts to renew the ban failed, as have attempts to pass a new ban.
An '''assault weapons ban''' is a form of ]. In the ], there was a federal-level ban from 1994 until 2004. Attempts to renew the ban failed, as have attempts to pass a new ban. Existing and proposed weapon bans come under scrutiny in the wake of ]s, most recently after the December 2012 ]. In the ] and elsewhere in the world there are or have been similar bans.

The 1994 federal ban and first state ban, in California, were prompted by the ] in Stockton, California, in January 1989. Existing and proposed weapon bans come under scrutiny in the wake of ]s, most recently after the December 2012 ] in Newtown, Connecticut.

In the ] and elsewhere in the world there are or have been similar bans.


==United States of America== ==United States of America==
===Federal Assault Weapons Ban (expired 2004)=== ===Federal Assault Weapons Ban===
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In January 1989, ], using a semi-automatic replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. Five children died.<ref name="PittsPress 900523">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Senate restricts assault weapon imports, production |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=onk0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=6pYEAAAAIBAJ&dq=assault-weapon&pg=7212%2C4372530 |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |agency=Associated Press |date=May 23, 1990 |page=A13 }}</ref><ref name="Pazniokas 931220">{{cite news |title=One Gun's Journey Into A Crime |first=Mark |last=Pazniokas |url=http://articles.courant.com/1993-12-20/news/0000000491_1_gun-control-assault-weapons-assault-weapon-law |newspaper=The Courant |location=Hartford, CT |date=December 20, 1993 }}</ref><ref name="Roth-Koper ImpactEval1997">{{cite journal |last=Roth |first=Jeffrey A. |last2=Koper |first2=Christopher S. |year=1997 |title=Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=The Urban Institute |format=PDF |url=http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/aw_final.pdf }}</ref>{{rp|10}} President ] banned the import of semiautomatic rifles in March 1989,<ref name="Mohr 890315">{{cite news |title=U.S. BANS IMPORTS OF ASSAULT RIFLES IN SHIFT BY BUSH |first=Charles |last=Mohr |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/15/us/us-bans-imports-of-assault-rifles-in-shift-by-bush.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 15, 1989 }}</ref> and made the ban permanent in July.<ref name="Rasky 890708">{{cite news |title=Import Ban on Assault Rifles Becomes Permanent |first=Susan F. |last=Rasky |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/08/us/import-ban-on-assault-rifles-becomes-permanent.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 8, 1989 }}</ref> The assault weapons ban tried to address public concern about mass shootings while limiting the impact on recreational firearms use.<ref name="Roth-Koper ImpactsBrief1999">{{cite journal |last=Roth |first=Jeffrey A. |author2=Christopher S. Koper |title=Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban |url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/173405.pdf |journal=National Institute of Justice Research in Brief |issue=NCJ 173405 |date=March 1999 }}</ref>{{rp|1–2}} In January 1989, ], using a semi-automatic replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. Five children died.<ref name="PittsPress 900523">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Senate restricts assault weapon imports, production |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=onk0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=6pYEAAAAIBAJ&dq=assault-weapon&pg=7212%2C4372530 |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |agency=Associated Press |date=May 23, 1990 |page=A13 }}</ref><ref name="Pazniokas 931220">{{cite news |title=One Gun's Journey Into A Crime |first=Mark |last=Pazniokas |url=http://articles.courant.com/1993-12-20/news/0000000491_1_gun-control-assault-weapons-assault-weapon-law |newspaper=The Courant |location=Hartford, CT |date=December 20, 1993 }}</ref><ref name="Roth-Koper ImpactEval1997">{{cite journal |last=Roth |first=Jeffrey A. |last2=Koper |first2=Christopher S. |year=1997 |title=Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=The Urban Institute |format=PDF |url=http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/aw_final.pdf }}</ref>{{rp|10}} President ] banned the import of semiautomatic rifles in March 1989,<ref name="Mohr 890315">{{cite news |title=U.S. BANS IMPORTS OF ASSAULT RIFLES IN SHIFT BY BUSH |first=Charles |last=Mohr |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/15/us/us-bans-imports-of-assault-rifles-in-shift-by-bush.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 15, 1989 }}</ref> and made the ban permanent in July.<ref name="Rasky 890708">{{cite news |title=Import Ban on Assault Rifles Becomes Permanent |first=Susan F. |last=Rasky |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/08/us/import-ban-on-assault-rifles-becomes-permanent.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 8, 1989 }}</ref> The assault weapons ban tried to address public concern about mass shootings while limiting the impact on recreational firearms use.<ref name="Roth-Koper ImpactsBrief1999">{{cite journal |last=Roth |first=Jeffrey A. |author2=Christopher S. Koper |title=Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban |url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/173405.pdf |journal=National Institute of Justice Research in Brief |issue=NCJ 173405 |date=March 1999 }}</ref>{{rp|1–2}}
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The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, commonly called the federal ] (AWB and AWB 1994), was enacted in September 1994. The ban, including a ban on high-capcity magazines, became defunct (expired) in September 2004 per a 10-year ]. The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, commonly called the federal ] (AWB and AWB 1994), was enacted in September 1994. The ban, including a ban on high-capcity magazines, became defunct (expired) in September 2004 per a 10-year ].

===Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 bill (failed to pass)===
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Efforts to pass a new federal assault weapons ban were renewed on December 14, 2012, when 20 children and 6 adults were killed in the ] in Newtown, Connecticut<ref name=Barron121215>{{cite news |last=Barron |first=James |date=December 15, 2012 |title=Children Were All Shot Multiple Times With a Semiautomatic, Officials Say |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/gunman-kills-20-children-at-school-in-connecticut-28-dead-in-all.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher=New York Times Company |accessdate=April 12, 2014 }}</ref> - the deadliest primary or secondary ] in U.S. history.<ref name=Effron121214>{{cite news |title=Mass School Shootings: A History |author=Effron, Lauren |url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-school-shootings-history/story?id=17975571 |publisher=ABC News |date=December 14, 2012 |accessdate=April 13, 2014}}</ref> On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein introduced {{USBill|113|S.|150}}, the ] (AWB 2013), in the ].<ref name=CSPAN130124>{{cite AV media |people=Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rev. Gary Hall, Rep. ], et al |date=January 24, 2013 |title=Assault Weapons Ban Bill |medium=video |url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?310581-1/assault-weapons-ban-bill |format= |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Cable Satellite Corporation |accessdate=April 13, 2014 }}</ref> The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an ] rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban.<ref name=USAToday130124>{{cite news |last=Kucinich |first=Jackie |date=January 24, 2013 |title=Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban |url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/24/assault-weapons-ban-feinstein-democrats/1861493/ |newspaper=USA Today |location= |publisher= |accessdate=April 13, 2014 }}</ref> On April 17, 2013, AWB 2013 failed on a Senate vote of 60 to 40.<ref name=Simon130417>{{cite news |title=Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban |last=Simon |first=Richard |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-vote-20130417,0,5349684.story |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=April 17, 2013 |accessdate= }}</ref>



===District of Columbia=== ===District of Columbia===

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This article is about worldwide assault weapons bans in general. For details on the US 1994 ban, see Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

An assault weapons ban is a form of gun control. In the United States, there was a federal-level ban from 1994 until 2004. Attempts to renew the ban failed, as have attempts to pass a new ban. Existing and proposed weapon bans come under scrutiny in the wake of mass shootings, most recently after the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world there are or have been similar bans.

United States of America

Federal Assault Weapons Ban

Main article: Federal Assault Weapons Ban

In January 1989, 34 children and a teacher were shot in Stockton, Calif., using a semi-automatic replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. Five children died. President George H.W. Bush banned the import of semiautomatic rifles in March 1989, and made the ban permanent in July. The assault weapons ban tried to address public concern about mass shootings while limiting the impact on recreational firearms use.

In November 1993, the ban passed the U.S. Senate, although its author, Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, and other advocates said that it was a weakened version of the original proposal. In January 1994, Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, said handguns and assault weapons should be banned. In May of that year, former presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automatic assault guns." They cited a 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll that found 77 percent of Americans supported a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of such weapons. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-TX, then chair of the House Judiciary Committee, tried to remove the ban from the crime bill but failed.

The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, commonly called the federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB and AWB 1994), was enacted in September 1994. The ban, including a ban on high-capcity magazines, became defunct (expired) in September 2004 per a 10-year sunset provision.

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State assault weapon bans

See also: Gun laws in the United States by state

Three U.S. states passed assault weapons bans before Congress passed the federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994: California in 1989, New Jersey in 1990, and Connecticut in 1993. Four others passed assault weapons bans before AWB 1994 expired in 2004: Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York.

California

Main article: Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989

In May 1989, California became the first state in the U.S. to pass an assault weapons ban, after the January 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton.

Connecticut

In June 1993, Connecticut became the third U.S. state, after California and New Jersey, to pass an assault weapons ban.

Hawaii

Hawaii was one of seven U.S. states to have an assault weapons ban in place prior to the September 2004 sunset of the now defunct federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

Maryland

Maryland was one of seven U.S. states to have an assault weapons ban in place prior to the September 2004 sunset of the now defunct federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts was one of seven U.S. states to have an assault weapons ban in place prior to the September 2004 sunset of the now defunct federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

New Jersey

In May 1990, New Jersey became the second state in the U.S. to pass an assault weapons ban.

New York

New York was one of seven U.S. states to have an assault weapons ban in place prior to the September 2004 sunset of the now defunct federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

County assault weapon bans

Cook County, Illinois

Municipal assault weapon bans

Boston, Massachusetts

Chicago, Illinois

United Kingdom

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References

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  2. Pazniokas, Mark (December 20, 1993). "One Gun's Journey Into A Crime". The Courant. Hartford, CT.
  3. Roth, Jeffrey A.; Koper, Christopher S. (1997). "Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Mohr, Charles (March 15, 1989). "U.S. BANS IMPORTS OF ASSAULT RIFLES IN SHIFT BY BUSH". The New York Times.
  5. Rasky, Susan F. (July 8, 1989). "Import Ban on Assault Rifles Becomes Permanent". The New York Times.
  6. Roth, Jeffrey A.; Christopher S. Koper (March 1999). "Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban" (PDF). National Institute of Justice Research in Brief (NCJ 173405).
  7. Bunting, Glenn F. (November 9, 1993). "Feinstein Faces Fight for Diluted Gun Bill". Los Angeles Times.
  8. Sugarmann, Josh (January 1994). "Reverse FIRE: The Brady Bill won't break the sick hold guns have on America. It's time for tougher measures". Mother Jones. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Eaton, William J. (May 5, 1994). "Ford, Carter, Reagan Push for Gun Ban". Los Angeles Times.
  10. Seelye, Katharine Q. (July 28, 1994). "Assault Weapons Ban Allowed To Stay in Anti-crime Measure". The New York Times.
  11. Ingram, Carl (May 19, 1989). "Assault Gun Ban Wins Final Vote : Deukmejian's Promised Approval Would Make It 1st Such U.S. Law". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 20, 2104. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  12. Johnson, Kirk (June 9, 1993). "Weicker Signs Bill to Forbid Assault Rifles". New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  13. Koerner, Brendan (September 16, 2004). "What Is an Assault Weapon? At last, you can get a semiautomatic rifle with a bayonet". Slate. The Slate Group.
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