Biden says America is 'awash in weapons of war,' calls for ban on assault weapons
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While celebrating the first major gun legislation to get through Congress in decades, Biden also called for a ban on assault weapons to be reinstated.
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A recent spate of mass shootings from Buffalo, New York, to Uvalde, Texas, spurred lawmakers to pass the legislation that Biden signed last month. It will increase background check requirements for people younger than 21, allow authorities to more easily take firearms away from people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others, and keep guns out of the hands of more domestic abusers.
The bill stopped short of more stringent restrictions that Democrats have been pushing for, including the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Biden called for on Monday, which was passed by Congress in 1994 but expired 10 years later.