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The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress as by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on January 24, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the Senate on April 17, 2013 by a vote of 40 to 60. ==Background== Efforts to create a new federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB 1994) were renewed on December 14, 2012, when 20 children and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.〔 It was the deadliest primary or secondary school shooting,〔 the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single person,〔 and one of the 25 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.〔 Within hours of the shooting, a We the People user started a petition asking the White House to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress." That afternoon, President Barack Obama made a televised statement offering condolences on behalf of the nation to Connecticut governor, Dannel Malloy and saying, "we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."〔 Speaking at a December 16 memorial service in Newtown, Obama said he would "use whatever power this office holds" to prevent similar tragedies.〔 By December 17, the White House petition had more than 150,000 signatures,〔 and one week after the shooting it had almost 200,000, along with those on 30 similar petitions.〔 On December 21, 2012, Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), expressed the gun-rights group's sympathy for the families of Newtown. He said, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," and that debating legislation that won't work would be a waste of time.〔 Feinstein and Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, held a separate news conference in response to LaPierre's.〔 There, Feinstein said that the bill was a work in progress and that one idea was to register grandfathered assault weapons under the National Firearms Act (NFA) and another was a buy-back program.〔 A December 26, two-page bill summary on the senator's web site also mentioned registering grandfathered assault weapons under the NFA, but not a buy-back program.〔 (Neither proposal appeared in the text of the bill introduced to the Senate.) On January 16, 2013, Obama announced a plan for reducing gun violence in four parts, one of which was banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.〔〔 The plan included 23 executive orders, signed immediately by the president, and 12 proposals for Congress,〔 including reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.〔 The proposals were opposed by the NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF),〔 and opposition was expected by Republican and some Democrat legislators.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assault Weapons Ban of 2013」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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