The bill would expand the definition of an assault weapon by reducing to just one the number of specified "physical characteristics" that need to be present.

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Restricting the definition...could make an agreement easier to verify, but ineffective in achieving its purpose of protecting satellites....Furthermore, problems of weapon definition are compounded because some non-weapon space systems, including civil and commercial systems, could have characteristics which would make it difficult to frame a definition to distinguish them.

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