automatic weapons. However a Semi-automatic weapon still can fire one round and instantly load the next round with each pull of the trigger. So this means the faster you pull the trigger the faster it shoots, and it's not much slower than the automatic. It has been test-fired that a 30 round magazine on an automatic machine gun is only 2 seconds faster than the semi-automatic (Brady). In the past, there are more similar cases like the massacre in Minnesota, The difference is that the criminal use even more powerful weapon, assault rifles to kill and injure the police officers and dozens of innocent citizens, including the Branch-Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas. On February 28, 1993, while attempting to serve federal search and arrest warrants at the Branch-Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, four ATF special agents were killed and 16 others were wounded with an arsenal of assault weapons. According to a federal affidavit, the cult had accumulated at least the following assault weapons: 123 AR-15s, 44 AK-47s, 2 Barrett .50 calibers, 2 Street Sweepers, an unknown number of MAC-10 and MAC-11s, 20 100-round drum magazines, and 260 large-capacity banana clips. The weapons were bought legally from gun dealers and at gun shows (Washington Post). The above are some examples of why assault weapons were banned on September 13, 1994. During the time President Clinton signed into law the federal banning of semi-automatic assault weapons, known as the federal assault weapons ban. Back in 1934, congress voted for all automatic weapons ownership must be registered. In 1986, congress stopped the selling of new automatic weapons from manufacture and importation to civilians. In the1989, under President H.W Bush's administration, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) banned the importation
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