A number of the Democratic lawmakers who voted for the ban in 1994 were handed tough midterm losses that resulted in a disastrous election for the party.
, but a number of the Democratic lawmakers who voted for the bill were handed tough midterm losses that resulted in disastrous election for the party.
Democratic Representative Kurt Schrader said passing a federal assault weapons ban would undermine the work of the bipartisan gun legislation that was passed last month. Above, gun control activists rally near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., calling for a federal ban on assault weapons on July 13, 2022., then a congressman who was ousted from the House that year, has repeatedly cited that vote as being the reason for his congressional defeat.
Former California Representative Vic Fazio explained in a 2019 interview with the Daily Beast that the vote on the 1994 crime bill was especially harrowing to Democrats who were seeking re-election but also facing pressure to fall in line with the rest of the party.
"It undermines what we already did and reemphasizes to all the people in America that are not hardcore urban Democrats that our party's out of touch," the centrist Democrat said.against last month's sweeping legislation. Despite his public opposition to a federal assault weapons ban, the measure is broadly popular among the caucus, with even several battleground Democrats, like Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria, stepping up to cosponsor the bill.
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