She is 8 years old.

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5. Yes. There are an assault weapons ban in the 1994 crime bill, then Republicans gained control

of Congress and that was that.

Jim Clyburn:

"We put stuff in there that we thought we would build on. But then we lost in 1994, and all of the punitive stuff, the Republicans kept all that and got rid of some of the good stuff. ... We went left in this country in the 1994 bill. We put in the assault weapons ban. But when it came time for renewal, we didn't have the votes. The country had gone back to the right."

Unfortunately Democrats never had the votes again.