The bill also makes the ban harder to evade by eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test. Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test. The legislation strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and state bans by: The bill excludes 2,258 legitimate hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns by specific make and model. The legislation protects hunting and sporting firearms: Assault weapons used by military, law enforcement, and retired law enforcement and. Any firearm manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action. Any weapon that is lawfully possessed at the date of the bill’s enactment. The legislation excludes the following weapons from the bill: 157 specifically-named firearms (listed at the end of this page). All ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums) capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock pistol grip fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds ability to accept a detachable magazine forward grip grenade launcher or rocket launcher or shotgun with a revolving cylinder. 
All semiautomatic rifles and handguns that have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.All semiautomatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: threaded barrel second pistol grip barrel shroud capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip or semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: pistol grip forward grip folding, telescoping, or detachable stock grenade launcher or rocket launcher barrel shroud or threaded barrel.
The legislation bans the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of: These weapons allow a gunman to fire a large number of rounds quickly and without having to reload.
Mass shootings in Newtown, Aurora, and Tucson have demonstrated all too clearly the need to regulate military-style assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines.
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