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Washington: McCarthy files bill to ban big ammo clips
On the first day of the new Congress, Long Island’s Rep. Carolyn McCarthy once again introduced a bill to ban high-capacity ammunition clips in the hope it succeeds after the horror of the Newtown school massacre.
McCarthy, a Mineola Democrat, has sought to reinstate the ban on those ammunition magazines in each Congress since it expired in 2004, 10 years after it first passed in 1994 partly...
