Editing Barbara Boxer (section)

===Gun laws===
Senator Boxer joined colleagues to pass a [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban|federal ban]] on various [[semi-automatic firearm]]s and established the COPS program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barbara Boxer |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-political-future/fellows-program/former-fellows/barbara-boxer/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=USC Center for the Political Future |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sen. Barbara Boxer says she won't seek a sixth term in 2016 (VIDEO) |url=https://www.guns.com/news/2015/01/08/sen-barbara-boxer-says-she-wont-seek-a-sixth-term-in-2016-video |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Guns.com |language=en}}</ref>

In the wake of the 2016 [[Orlando nightclub shooting]], Boxer posted on Facebook that it was an "unspeakable tragedy" and she encouraged others to support "common-sense gun safety laws to protect our communities from these weapons of war."<ref name="Berkowitz61616">{{cite news|last1=Berkowitz|first1=Bonnie|last2=Cai|first2=Weiyi|last3=Lu|first3=Denise|last4=Gamio|first4=Lazaro|title=Everything lawmakers said (and didn't say) after the Orlando mass shooting|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/how-lawmakers-responded-to-the-orlando-mass-shooting/|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref>