Feb 28, 2016 ... Bernie Sanders defended his vote supporting the 1994 crime bill during an  interview on Meet the Press. ... Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because " there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill." ... "You said you supported the  House version of crime bill because it had an assault weapons ban in it.
Feb 25, 2016 ... Press Release. Sanders Voted for 1994 Crime Bill to Support Assault Weapons  Ban, Violence Against Women Provisions. February 25, 2016 ... In Sanders'  statement at the time, he criticized the mass incarceration and death penalty  provisions in the bill, saying: “…it is also my view that through the neglect ...
Dec 21, 2012 ... Clinton was referring to the assault weapons ban he had achieved as part of a  massive anti-crime bill enacted the previous year. ... “Ultimately, the 1994 ban  was almost meaningless because it was so defectively drafted,” says Tom Diaz, a  senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, who worked for ...
Apr 8, 2016 ... Still, Sanders voted for the crime bill, largely because it included some provisions  that he strongly approved of, like the Violence Against Women Act and a 10-year  assault weapons ban. And he backed more funding for police, which the 1994  law included and remains a popular way to fight crime among ...
Apr 12, 2016 ... Bill Clinton overstated the effect of the crime bill he signed in 1994 when he said,  “because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the ...  Enforcement Act of 1994, which provided funding for tens of thousands of  community police officers and drug courts, banned certain assault weapons, ...
Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."