Feinstein's Assault Weapons Ban Loses This Round

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 7:40pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejects Sen. Dianne Feinstein's proposed assault weapons ban to keep it from jeopardizing the passage of more popular measures in Democrats' gun legislation.WASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive.

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