Editing Assault weapon (section)

===Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 bill===
{{Main|Assault Weapons Ban of 2013}}
On December 16, 2012, two days after the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]], Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] said she would introduce a new assault weapons ban on the first day of Congress.<ref name="jamieson 121216">{{cite news |last=Jamieson |first=Dave |title=Dianne Feinstein To Introduce Assault Weapons Ban On First Day Of Congress |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-ban_n_2311477.html |work=The Huffington Post |date=December 16, 2012 |access-date=December 6, 2013}}</ref> Five days later, on December 21, [[Wayne LaPierre]], chief executive of the National Rifle Association, held a news conference repeating the NRA's opposition to additional gun laws.<ref name="LaPierre121221">{{cite news |last=Gold |first=Matea |date=December 21, 2012 |title=A defiant NRA calls for armed guards in every school |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-dec-21-la-pn-nra-newtown-20121221-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Just 27 Percent of Americans Say the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban Would Have Helped Avoid the Sandy Hook Shooting|first=Emily |last=Ekins |work=Reason |date=January 30, 2013 |url=http://reason.com/poll/2013/01/30/just-27-percent-of-americans-say-the-fed}}</ref> Feinstein and Senator [[Richard Blumenthal]] held a separate news conference in response.<ref name="Feinstein-Blumenthal">{{cite AV media |people=Feinstein, Dianne and Richard Blumenthal |date=December 21, 2012 |title=Senators Feinstein and Blumenthal React to NRA |url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ReacttoN |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref> There, Feinstein said that it seemed to her "prudent" to register grandfathered assault weapons under the National Firearms Act (NFA).<ref name="Feinstein121221">{{cite AV media |people=Feinstein, Dianne and Richard Blumenthal |date=December 21, 2012 |title=Senators Feinstein and Blumenthal React to NRA |url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ReacttoN |time=12:16 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref> A two-page bill summary on the senator's web site also mentioned registering grandfathered assault weapons under the NFA,<ref name="Summ121226PDF">{{cite web |title=Summary of 2013 Feinstein Assault Weapons Legislation |url=http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=10993387-5d4d-4680-a872-ac8ca4359119 |author=<!--no byline--> |format=PDF |date=December 26, 2012 |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> but the text of the bill introduced to the Senate did not include that provision.

On January 24, 2013, Feinstein introduced S. 150, the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013".<ref name="S150">{{USBill|113|S.|150}}</ref> The bill was similar to the 1994 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. On April 17, 2013, it failed on a Senate vote of 60 to 40.<ref name="simon 130417">{{cite news |last=Simon |first=Richard |date=April 17, 2013 |title=Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-vote-20130417,0,5349684.story |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=November 26, 2013}}</ref>