It was not renewed in 2004, and thus there is not currently a federal assault weapon ban (Plumer, 2012). The law included a sunset provision, calling for its repeal after ten years. Department of Justice, 1994 see also Pub. In 1994, Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned "the manufacture of military-style assault weapons, assault weapons with specific combat features, 'copy-cat' models, and certain high-capacity ammunition magazines of more than ten rounds" (U.S. Furthermore, they argue that the characteristics used to differentiate banned firearms from nonbanned semiautomatic weapons are cosmetic and do not make them more deadly than similar weapons without those features. Those in the gun industry refer to many of these firearms as modern sporting rifles, contending that assault rifle applies only to fully automatic weapons used by militaries (National Shooting Sports Foundation, undated). In state and federal gun laws, it generally refers to specific semiautomatic firearm models that are designed to fire a high volume of ammunition in a controlled way or that have specified design features, such as folding stocks or pistol grips (for differences in definitions across states, see the state implementation section on this page).
The term assault weapon is controversial.
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