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* The [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban|Assault Weapons Ban of 1994]] (AWB 1994), which was a [[United States Code|federal-level U.S. law]] that expired in 2004 based on a [[sunset provision]] and is now defunct. |
* The [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban|Assault Weapons Ban of 1994]] (AWB 1994), which was a [[United States Code|federal-level U.S. law]] that expired in 2004 based on a [[sunset provision]] and is now defunct. |
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* The Canadian Firearms Act, strengthened in Canada in the years following the 1989 [[École Polytechnique Massacre]] in Montreal. |
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* The [[Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997]] effectively banned civilian handgun ownership in the U.K. after the [[Dunblane school massacre|Dunblane Primary School massacre]]. |
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Revision as of 22:30, 22 April 2014
An assault weapons ban is a kind of gun law. It can also refer specifically to:
Specific laws that regulated firearms defined as assault weapons
- The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 (AWB 1994), which was a federal-level U.S. law that expired in 2004 based on a sunset provision and is now defunct.
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