For those on this post saying that Obama did NOT say he wanted to ban assault rifles, here ya go... from the official transcript...
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But I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. But part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence. Because frankly, in my home town of Chicago, there's an awful lot of violence and they're not using AK-47s. They're using cheap hand guns.
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So IF you are smart enough to read into what he is saying it's NOT just the "assault weapons" he is wanting to ban but handguns fall into his strategy too...