US Senate Democrats have proposed a new assault weapons ban in light of recent mass shootings in the country, but Republicans have refused to support it.
Nearly two dozen Democratic senators, including Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, on Wednesday put forward the updated version of the ban originally introduced and passed by Senator Dianne Feinstein in 1994.
“We’re introducing an updated assault weapons ban for one reason: so that after every mass shooting with a military-style assault weapon, the American people will know that a tool to reduce these massacres is sitting in the Senate, ready for a debate and a vote,” Feinstein said.
“It’s past time to remove weapons of war from our streets,” she added in introducing the new bill which bans the sale, manufacture and transfer of 205…