My father voted for the 1994 assault weapons ban — Congress should do so again ...Middle East

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The year I turned 11, in 1994, my father ran for re-election as the U.S. representative for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District. This same year, he voted for a federal assault weapons ban, which changed the federal criminal code “to prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or possession of a semiautomatic assault weapon,” i.e., civilian versions of military-grade automatic weapons. As a congressman from New Hampshire — famously and proudly the “Live free or die” state — my dad, Richard Swett, did not originally intend to vote for this legislation. He believed it could have an impact on America’s gun violence problem, but he also knew that a majority of his constituents opposed it. I

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