Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) repeated her vow to bring back an assault weapons ban on the first day the Senate meets next year.
Feinstein, a co-author of the original 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban that lapsed in 2004, said that since she announced her plan on Sunday on Meet The Press, her phone has been ringing with support from local mayors, including Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, as well as CEOs, and citizens groups. “We intend to introduce a bill, and I intend one way or another, no matter how long it takes, I intend to get that bill through,” she told Andrea Mitchell. “There’s one thing I’m sure of, that in the absence of doing something that is sound, practical, that’s workable, these incidents are not going to stop. I’ve watched them now since the Texas bell tower in 1967.”
Senator Feinstein also told Mitchell that she placed a call to President Obama this morning looking for his help in moving her bill forward.
That effort to bring back an assault weapons ban is not something sparked by last week’s tragic shooting, said Feinstein:









