Murphy: Not enough votes in Senate for assault weapon ban

Following the shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, it was no surprise that President Joe Biden called for an assault weapon ban. After all, he typically calls for one after every mass shooting, even if the killer didn’t use anything like an AR-15 or an AK-pattern rifle.
 

It’s kind of a reflex for him at this point. But this time, the bad guy did use one, and so he’s seizing on it in order to push for such a ban. Yet one of his staunchest allies in the Senate had to admit that it’s just not happening.

President Joe Biden has long been calling for a ban against so-called “assault weapons,” which he just doubled down on this holiday weekend, causing quite a concern with his language for those who care about the Second Amendment.