FINANCIAL TIMES: …“It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession [of assault weapons]. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets,” [California Sen. Diane] Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
Chuck Schumer, the New York senator, and Dick Durbin, the Illinois senator, both members of the Democratic leadership in the upper chamber, joined the call, suggesting the massacre in Connecticut could be a tipping point for the debate over gun control in the US.
“I think that what happened in Newtown, Connecticut, may at least lead some to finally decide to sit down and have this conversation,” Mr Durbin said on Fox News on Sunday, suggesting the impact on public opinion could be comparable to the terrorist attacks of 2001…
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