Assault weapons legislation in the United States

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Assault weapons legislation in the United States are bills and laws (active, theoretical, expired, proposed, or failed) that define and restrict or make illegal the manufacture, transfer, and possession of assault weapons. How these firearms are defined and regulated varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction; generally, this constitutes a list of specific firearms and combinations of features on semiautomatic firearms. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban enacted in 1994 expired in 2004. Attempts to renew this ban have failed, as have attempts to pass a new ban, such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013). Twelve states with a third of the U.S. population have assault weapons bans: three were enacted before the 1994 federal ban, four more were passed before the federal ban expired, and five passed after the federal ban expired. The majority of states have no assault weapons ban, although two, Minnesota and Virginia, have training and background check requirements for purchasers of assault...

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