Jean-Pierre also argued that assault weapons bans have worked in the past. WATCH:KJP: "If you think about Assault Weapons Ban…We saw gun violence go down. “If you think about assault weapons ban, we know, when we saw — when the president was involved in 1994 to get that done, we saw. We saw gun violence go down and when it sunset ten years later, it went back up,” Jean-Pierre insisted. “This literally never happened,” Loesch began, sharing a series of links to others who also explained that the 1994 assault weapons ban had not resulted in less gun violence.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2023 22:13 UTC