President Obama invoked former President Ronald Reagan’s support of the 1994 assault weapons ban Wednesday when he announced proposals to curb gun violence.
“Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. A majority of Americans agree with us on this,” Obama said. “And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment, who wrote to Congress in 1994 urging them — this is Ronald Reagan speaking — urging them to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of military-style assault weapons.”
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