Last night, the question, in a narrow form, came up with respect to a federal ban on assault weapons (which expired in 2004).

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And I just want to be clear that, in addition to his support for a renewal of the assault weapons ban, which has long been stated and if it does take form in legislation that Senator Feinstein introduces, then that would obviously be something that would win his support, but it goes beyond that.

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