Former President Bill Clinton, who signed a law banning assault weapons in 1994, said congressional lawmakers would have the support of voters if they took action once again to outlaw military-style rifles.

Noting how the gun lobby routinely repeats how Democrats lost seats in the 1994 midterm elections after he signed the ban that expired in 2004, Clinton said last year’s elections show “it’s a different world now.”

“Today members of Congress will be supported if they reinstate the assault-weapons and large-ammunition magazine bans, and if the Senate passes the universal-background-check law already passed by the House of Representatives​,” he wrote in an opinion piece for Time published Thursday.

Clinton said assault weapons are “designed to inflict maximum harm in a short period of time” and were used in the weekend’s shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, as well as Parkland, Fla., Newtown, Conn., and Las Vegas.

​”​The Dayton killer shot 41 bullets in 30 seconds before the police got him​,” Clinton wrote. “He killed nine people and wounded 14 others, almost one victim per second.​”​

​He cited a study by Everytown for Gun Safety ​that found shootings involving assault weapons resulted in 155 percent more people shot and ​47 percent more people killed than incidents involving another type of gun.

​”​I worked hard to pass and was proud to sign the ban on these weapons of war into law, and the results were clear: mass shooting fatalities declined while they were in effect and have risen sharply since they were allowed to lapse​,” he said.

Clinton said one action would not stop the “wave of gun violence” and endorsed “red flags” legislation, mental health reforms, universal background checks and other actions.

​”​We all have to stand against, not inflame, the racial, religious and gender-based bigotries that often drive the delusions of mass killers​,” he wrote.

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​A ​RAND study in 2018, he said, found that a 1 percent reduction in gun deaths would mean 1,500 fewer deaths over 10 years.

“We have talked, tweeted and delayed long enough. This is about who we are as a country, what America will look like years from now, and whether our children and grandchildren will be safer and freer to grow up​,” he wrote. ​