In an interview with the Financial Occasions, Christian Heyne, chief applications and coverage officer for Brady, America’s main gun violence prevention group stated: “The rationale for America’s relationship with the AR-15 is a query we’ve to be asking as a result of these assault-style weapons, military-style particularly, are designed for use precisely as they’re getting used: to kill.”
Heyne stated as a result of Trump is now additionally a gun violence survivor, the group hopes the Republican presidential nominee “acknowledges that one in every of these weapons got here inside a mere inch of ending his life due to the methods by which we enable civilians unfettered entry to firearms.”
Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, and signed the Firearm House owners’ Safety Act in 1986, banning new totally computerized rifles from being offered privately. Invoice Clinton would go on to signal into regulation the assault weapons ban in 1994.