What Happened the Last Time the U. S. Had an Assault Weapons Ban?

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6. Republicans took the House

Bush took the presidency. There were still mass shootings.

The publicity of the ban increased interest in AR-15s and other types of tactical rifles. This dramatically increased sales of these rifles until what was a somewhat niche product went mainstream.

Now the country has probably over 10 million of them in it, maybe several times that.

In other words, it did exactly the opposite of what we supposed to happen: sales of semiautomatic rifles that feed from detectable magazines soared and the Democrats that supported the ban lost politically.