House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the bill forward Friday, but the legislation is likely to go nowhere in the Senate.
Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed in many mass shootings.
Congress allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 to expire a decade later, unable to muster the political support to counter the powerful gun lobby.Copyright © 2022 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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