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Chuck Grassley: “The assault weapons ban did not prevent the earlier school shooting at Columbine.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2013
The assault weapons ban did not prevent the earlier school shooting at Columbine.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley argues that past bans failed to prevent school shootings.

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