President Joe Biden on Monday renewed his pledge to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines following multiple high-profile mass shootings.
"We're living in a country awash in weapons of war. Weapons that were designed to hunt are not being used. The weapons designed, that they're purchasing, are designed as weapons of war to take out an enemy," Biden said, stressing his aim to ban assault weapons, not hunting firearms.
Biden told reporters at the event celebrating the passage of the Safer Communities Act that an AR-15 can fire rounds at nearly twice the speed of a handgun and "human flesh and bone is just torn apart."
