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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front» when asked about a broader ban on assault weapons on Feb. 20.

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The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

On Wednesday, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell assault - style weapons.

It «will either be a one - time, one - off, fire - and - forget retaliation for a heinous chemical - weapons assault on civilians, or it will serve as a signal to the Assad regime and its allies that the free ride for mass murder in Syria is now over,» Hof said.

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

Congress rejected bills to tighten background checks on gun sales and ban military - style «assault weapons» in April 2013.

The White House is weighing a far broader approach than just reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

When he went on to say, we're putting our lives on the line, we've got to do better and people who should care about protecting police officers should be committed to getting assault weapons off the streets to start with.

In 2000, he said he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to purchase a gun, but during his campaign, he has been a vocal proponent of Second Amendment rights and has said he will end gun - free zones.

Dick's kicked off the trend on Wednesday with an announcement that it would stop selling assault - style weapons and require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

Dick's assault weapons ban shows how companies are making decisions on issues that might even hurt their bottom lines, says Prof. Megan Kashner.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some have argued for a reinstatement of the nationwide ban on assault weapons, while others have suggested that the solution lies in improving access to mental - health care.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

The primary goals: to ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines and create laws that require background checks on every gun purchase.

Democrats offered a slew of amendments over eight hours of debate on the bill, including a permanent ban on assault weapons and the elimination of the armed - teacher program.

The company is also pressing the government to enact gun - reform measures, including a ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks; raising the minimum age to 21 for gun purchasing; universal background checks that include scrutiny of mental - health information and previous run - ins with the law; and an end to the background - check loophole for gun show and private sales.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

A majority of Republicans back universal background checks, a ban on assault - style weapons, a federal database to track gun sales, prohibitions on people with mental illness, and barring people on no - fly or watch lists from buying firearms.

There was no rise in support for a ban on assault weapons compared to two years ago.

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a complaint against the state's «assault weapons» ban on Friday and expressly described similar bans as constitutional.

While speaking at the Austin, Texas, student march for gun control on Saturday actor Matthew McConaughey urged law - abiding gun owners to «take one for the team» and give up their «assault weapons.»

A federal ban on the manufacture of certain rifles deemed to be «assault weapons» took effect in 1994, and the list of covered rifles included the AR - 15.

The Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, passed a surrender and confiscation ordinance for «assault weapons» Monday night and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) responded by filing suit on Thursday.

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

Carmen Schentrup would have celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday had she not been gunned down in a hail of bullets from an AR - 15 semi-automatic assault weapon on February 14 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by an expelled student who had bought the gun legally when he was just 18 years old.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is calling on school pension fund managers to divest of companies that make «assault weapons.»

On Saturday students marching for an «assault weapon» ban stumbled when asked to explain what the term «assault weapon» means.

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«I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun,» he wrote in his 2000 book, «The America We Deserve.»

«Our goal here is to get a complete ban on assault weapons in the state of Florida, and we will not accept anything else,» student Spencer Blum said.

Congress might raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy assault weapons: This policy hasn't really been on the radar of gun - control advocates, who would prefer tightly regulating or banning these kinds of weapons.

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

Asked about a broader ban on assault weapons, Ms. Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front.»

But it left out many of the biggest provisions the students and their supporters had sought, including bans on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

Like a ban on assault weapons, this is a proposal with widespread public support.

House Republicans on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas junior Kyle Kashuv alleges he was aggressively questioned by school administrators and local law enforcement after posting on social media that he fired an assault weapon at a gun range.

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In November, 65 percent of Americans supported a «nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons.»

They plan to circulate petitions to put an assault weapon ban on the 2020 ballot if neither the Revision Commission nor the Legislature responds adequately by then.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

It is not the sort of issue, such as assault weapons, on which the commission needs to act because the Legislature has shown that it won't.