Dem senator says he now supports ban on assault-style weapons

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Dem senator says he now supports ban on assault-style weapons
By Rebecca Savransky - 04/02/18 07:13 AM EDT


Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says he would now back a ban on assault-style weapons.

“I don’t know how I can responsibly look at those young people and not say ‘We need to do something,’ ” Warner said Friday, according to The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.

“We can debate around the edges where and what the perfect solution is. ... But it’s time for action.”

Warner said the challenge in drafting legislation is that an "assault weapon, in the law, is a kind of a vague term."

"You change the trigger, you change the sight, and some weapons are in, some weapons are out. There’s not going to be a perfect solution,” he said.

“But the notion that just because it’s hard we shouldn’t do it – I just don’t think we can sit through more of the mass murders and not take action.”

Warner was among a handful of Senate Democrats who voted against a ban on assault-style weapons in 2013 following the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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