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===2013 - Federal===
{{Main|Assault Weapons Ban of 2013}}
Efforts to pass a new federal assault weapons ban were renewed on December 14, 2012, when 20 children and 6 adults were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut<ref name=Barron121215>{{cite news |last=Barron |first=James |date=December 15, 2012 |title=Children Were All Shot Multiple Times With a Semiautomatic, Officials Say |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/gunman-kills-20-children-at-school-in-connecticut-28-dead-in-all.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher=New York Times Company |accessdate=April 12, 2014 }}</ref><ref name=Levy121221>{{cite news |last=Levy |first=Gabrielle |date=December 21, 2012 |title=Obama responds to gun violence petition |url=http://www.upi.com/blog/2012/12/21/Obama-responds-to-gun-violence-petition/1021356100902/ |newspaper= |location= |publisher=United Press International |type=blog |accessdate=May 26, 2014 }}</ref><ref name=Steinhauer130124>{{cite news |title=Senator Unveils Bill to Limit Semiautomatic Arms |author=Steinhauer, Jennifer |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/us/politics/senator-unveils-bill-to-limit-semiautomatic-arms.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 24, 2013 |accessdate=May 26, 2014}}</ref> - the deadliest primary or secondary [[school shooting]] in U.S. history.<ref name=Effron121214>{{cite news |title=Mass School Shootings: A History |author=Effron, Lauren |url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-school-shootings-history/story?id=17975571 |publisher=ABC News |date=December 14, 2012 |accessdate=April 13, 2014}}</ref> On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein introduced {{USBill|113|S.|150}}, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013), in the [[U.S. Senate]].<ref name=CSPAN130124>{{cite AV media |people=Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rev. Gary Hall, Rep. [[Carolyn McCarthy]], et al |date=January 24, 2013 |title=Assault Weapons Ban Bill |medium=video |url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?310581-1/assault-weapons-ban-bill |format= |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Cable Satellite Corporation |accessdate=April 13, 2014 }}</ref> The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban.<ref name=USAToday130124>{{cite news |last=Kucinich |first=Jackie |date=January 24, 2013 |title=Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban |url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/24/assault-weapons-ban-feinstein-democrats/1861493/ |newspaper=USA Today |location= |publisher= |accessdate=April 13, 2014 }}</ref> On April 17, 2013, AWB 2013 failed on a Senate vote of 60 to 40.<ref name=Simon130417>{{cite news |title=Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban |last=Simon |first=Richard |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-vote-20130417,0,5349684.story |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=April 17, 2013 |accessdate= }}</ref>
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