U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty Thursday joined fellow members Congress and mayors, law enforcement officers, gun safety organizations and other groups, and victims of gun violence to introduce legislation on military-style assault weapons and high capacity ammunition feeding devices, the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," according to a statement.

"The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 would reauthorize and strengthen the 1994 assault weapons ban which expired in 2004," the statement said.

See Esty speak here:




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