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Biden and Democrats use ‘assault weapons ban’ to position for 2024

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The Washington Examiner, November 2022

Democrats are embracing progressively tougher gun control talk, as pollsters predict the issue could persuade the critical demographic of independent women to vote for or against Republicans in 2024 .

But in the meantime, President Joe Biden will likely break the promise he made during the 2020 and 2022 midterm campaigns to ban assault-style weapons before Democrats relinquish their control of Congress .

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