Reinstate the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (expired 2004).
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, also known as the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, was a United States federal law that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms it defined as "assault weapons," as well as certain ammunition magazines it defined as "large capacity."
The ten-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on September 13, 1994 and it expired on September 13, 2004.
Efforts to pass a new federal assault weapons ban were made in December 2012 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. On April 17, 2013, The ban failed a Senate vote of 40 to 60.