Anyone? /vkahBGCkbj- Mike Jason History of assault rifles Guess what happened where the red line is. There were several loopholes, including allowing the sale of semi-automatic rifles that were manufactured before the ban went into effect in 1994, but researchers have found that deaths associated with mass shootings were reduced, and grew rapidly once it expired.Ībbott made no mention of the assault weapons ban during his comments. The so-called assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, prohibited certain semi-automatic weapons - like AR-style rifles - from being manufactured or sold to civilians and also banned magazines that could hold more than 10 rounds. That’s because the timing of an uptick in mass shootings also coincides with the expiration of the Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, sometimes referred to as the assault weapons ban, according to a data investigation from Financial Times.ĭata shows that the number of victims per mass shooting tripled after the ban expired.

He has doubled down on his stance that mass shootings are not an issue of access to guns but instead mental health - even though Abbott slashed $211 million from the state’s mental health commission a month before the shooting.īut this particular quote has stood out to some observers as a gaping omission or misleading, particularly in the context that an 18-year-old gunman legally purchased two assault-style rifles that he used in the Uvalde shooting. Greg Abbott just days after an 18-year-old high school student massacred 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.Ībbott has been in the hot seat for his record on gun laws following the shooting. Maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing.” So for a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings, but we do now. It’s only in the last decade or two when we had school shootings.

UVALDE – “Ever since Texas has been a state, an 18-year-old has been able to buy a long gun.

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