In 1994, Clinton signed into law the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, placing restrictions on the number of military features a gun could have and banning large capacity magazines for consumer use.
The story behind the ban has been largely forgotten since it expired in 2004 and, in part, because the provision was embedded in the larger crime bill.
" These three guys said, "We're ready to help you on the crime bill, but Mr. President, don't push the assault weapon ban.
If you're going to pass this crime bill, or this ban, we'll have nothing to do with it.
The crime bill came to the floor without the assault ban.
The political price for passing the ban included the loss of Congress to the Republicans in 1994, endangering Clinton's agenda, and creating the partisan conditions on Capitol Hill that produced his own impeachment.
Even Clinton himself, looking back on the assault weapon ban in his memoir, My Life, concluded that he had likely "pushed the Congress, the country, and the administration too hard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/when-bill-clinton-passed-gun-reform/488045/
The story behind the ban has been largely forgotten since it expired in 2004 and, in part, because the provision was embedded in the larger crime bill.
" These three guys said, "We're ready to help you on the crime bill, but Mr. President, don't push the assault weapon ban.
If you're going to pass this crime bill, or this ban, we'll have nothing to do with it.
The crime bill came to the floor without the assault ban.
The political price for passing the ban included the loss of Congress to the Republicans in 1994, endangering Clinton's agenda, and creating the partisan conditions on Capitol Hill that produced his own impeachment.
Even Clinton himself, looking back on the assault weapon ban in his memoir, My Life, concluded that he had likely "pushed the Congress, the country, and the administration too hard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/when-bill-clinton-passed-gun-reform/488045/
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