Guns banned once, maybe again

Vice President Joe Biden is slated to make public his task force’s plan to rein in gun violence on Tuesday, and it may include a proposal to ban assault weapons - something for which President Barack Obama voiced support during a White House press conference on Monday. “What you can count on is the things I’ve said in the past — the belief we have to have strong background checks, that we can do a much better job in terms of keeping those magazine clips with high capacity out of the hands of folks that shouldn’t have them, an assault weapons ban that is meaningful — that those are things I continue to believe make sense,” Obama said Monday. In 1994, a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons criminalized possession of nearly 20 kinds of those guns before it expired 10 years later. Here’s a look at some of the assault weapons that were outlawed, according to legislation from the time: