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On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, into the U.S. Senate. [19] [20] 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 assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [21]
Fully repealing the law would require an unlikely 60 votes in the Senate and a Republican majority in the House, but Trump plans to unwind as much of it as he can via executive action, a gun ...
List of executive actions by Barack Obama, EO #13489–13764 (2009–2017) List of executive orders in the first presidency of Donald Trump, EO #13765–13984 (2017–2021) List of executive actions by Joe Biden, EO #13985–14144 (2021–2025) List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump, EO #14145–present (2025–present)
Meanwhile, the movement to broaden gun rights has blossomed, backed by a conservative-dominated Supreme Court, which vastly expanded the Second Amendment two years ago, and a flurry of state laws ...
The bill included no funding earmarked for gun safety and was signed into law by U.S. President Donald J. Trump on March 23, 2018. [ 22 ] The fiscal year 2020 federal budget included $25 million for the CDC and NIH to research reducing gun-related deaths and injuries, the first such funding since 1996.
The former president's loss of his Second Amendment rights highlights an arbitrary restriction that applies to many people with no history of violence.
On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his proposals for curbing gun violence in America. Some of his suggestions would require new laws -- an unlikely outcome, given Congress' gridlock and the ...
[14] [15] Gun legislation in the United States has become increasingly subject to federal judicial interpretation of the Constitution. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."