The former vice president championed his role in authoring the 1994 federal assault weapons ban in a New York Times op-ed.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday wrote that failing to enact a federal ban on assault weapons in response to a pair of mass shootings earlier this month would amount to a"moral" failure by politicians and represent a tacit acceptance of future massacres.
Proponents of gun reform have pushed President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to support a measure mandating federal criminal background checks during all firearm sales that House lawmakers passed in February. That moratorium, ratified as part of the 1994 crime bill that has dogged Biden’s White House candidacy, outlawed the manufacture, transfer and possession of 19 types of military-style assault weapons and expired in 2004 in accordance with its 10-year sunset provision.
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