Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban

The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban

that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, what is ed Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, ampoule there are just a few

gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be

to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told

reporters.




Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a

positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow

of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with

heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.



"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S.
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