WASHINGTON — The massacres in Buffalo, Uvalde and Highland Park, where people were quickly killed and wounded by gunmen using assault rifles with high capacity magazines, has thrown a spotlight — again — on the issue of selling military grade weapons to civilians.
While the latest slaughters reignited calls for an assault weapons ban, getting votes to limit access to weapons best suited for a battlefield is — has been, and for the moment, seems destined to still be — difficult to impossible in Congress. Which doesn’t mean activists should stop pushing to find more Republican votes.
