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Assault weapons ban
May 17, 2023
Tori Otten
Some Rare, Temporary Good News From the Supreme Court on Guns
The Supreme Court has declined to block an assault weapons ban in Illinois ... for now.
January 11, 2023
Prem Thakker
Illinois Becomes Ninth State to Ban Assault Weapons
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a statewide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, a few months after the mass shooting in Highland Park.
June 3, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Biden Is Doing Everything He Can to Keep Hope Alive for Gun Legislation
The president is walking a fine line between pushing meaningful legislation and alienating Republican senators.
June 17, 2016
David Dayen
The Democrats’ Filibuster to Nowhere
Why are they rallying around a questionable policy that won’t put a dent in America’s gun-violence epidemic?
December 11, 2015
Alex Shephard
For the first time in 20 years, a majority of Americans oppose a ban on assault weapons.
February 28, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Gun Control's Next Chapter Is All About Background Checks
February 5, 2013
Lydia DePillis
Hunters Have an NRA Problem
At what point does standing with the NRA become riskier than speaking out against it?
January 31, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
How to Build a Better Assault Weapons Ban
Or: Why the NRA's best argument is still bunk

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