1994 saw President Biden vote to outlaw so-called “assault weapons.”
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that President Biden would outlaw so-called “assault weapons,” to which the National Rifle Association (NRA) responded angrily.

“@JoeBiden defeated the @NRA in a fight. He can do it again,” Harris wrote in a tweet posted Tuesday night with a campaign ad praising Biden’s commitment to “ban assault weapons.”

The NRA responded by saying that Harris needs a history lesson on Biden’s efforts to outlaw so-called “assault weapons” in the 1990s in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

Before using social media, Vice President Harris should familiarize herself with her past. She is referring to Biden’s big ‘victory’ in 1994 when he voted in favor of the ‘assault weapons’ ban, said NRA spokesman Billy McLaughlin to Fox News Digital. “However, the ban was lifted in 2004 thanks to the NRA. The number of people who own AR-15s has increased from 850,000 to 25 million today.

.@JoeBiden has taken on the @NRA and won.

He can do it again. pic.twitter.com/gix1vXVtRw

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 22, 2023

In 1994, while serving as a senator for Delaware, Biden voted in favor of a major crime bill that included a ban on semi-automatic weapons, even though the Democrat-majority House had already passed the measure separately. The legislation ultimately became part of the comprehensive anti-crime package and needed to be passed with exceptions, including a sunset clause.

In September of that year, the legislation was approved by Congress and made a law by the late President Bill Clinton. It established a ten-year ban on the creation, transfer, and ownership of “semiautomatic assault weapons” and “large capacity ammunition feeding devices.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said at the time that she did not realize “the power of the NRA in [Washington, D.C.].” Democrats suffered historic defeats the following election cycle, handing control of both chambers of Congress to Republicans.

When George W. Bush was president and the Republicans were in control of both chambers of Congress in 2004, the law was set to expire.

In his statement, McLaughlin noted that “even President Clinton’s DOJ conceded the ban was ineffective.”

According to a 1999 Department of Justice study that looked at the ban’s immediate results, it “failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or multiple gunshot wound victims.” The results of a 2004 DOJ study found that the ban’s “effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”

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