A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington State Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is expected to sign it into law.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0420/Washington-State-will-not-accept-gun-violence-bans-semi-auto-guns?icid=rss

Authorities also seized a semi-automatic firearm and around $4,800 in cash.

Source: https://www.wgmd.com/california-men-arrested-with-38000-pounds-of-illegal-fireworks-after-san-jose-storage-facility-fire/

Background checks are now required in Minnesota on all private transfers of pistols and semi-automatic military-style assault weapons.

Source: https://1390granitecitysports.com/new-laws-taking-effect-on-august-1st-in-minnesota/

BELLINGHAM — A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is expected to sign it into law.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/apr/19/semi-automatic-rifle-ban-passes-washington-legislature/

Boesenecker said the bill’s language doesn’t affect the sale or transfer of “firearms that we would typically think of in a concealed carry or self-defense situation,” such as a semi-automatic handgun with a magazine that loads in the grip.

Source: https://www.lamarledger.com/2023/01/23/colorado-democrats-assault-weapon-ban-sales/

Card used a semi-automatic military-style assault rifle to kill 18 people and wound 13 others at a Lewiston bowling alley and a bar, making it the deadliest shooting in state history and the worst in the country this year.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/11/05/will-lewiston-massacre-lead-to-new-gun-control-laws-in-maine/

Dick’s Sporting Goods semi-automatic, assault-style rifles at stores.

Source: https://krdo.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2023/03/28/why-corporate-america-has-grown-silent-on-gun-violence/

During a Lunar New Year celebration, he wrestled the semi-automatic pistol away from a gunman who had already killed 11 people.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/02/07/bidens-state-of-the-union-speech-celebrates-brandon-tsays-heroic-actions-calls-for-assault-rifle-ban/

If you purchase a roof during the month of November, not only will you get a free frozen turkey, but you'll also get a free AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

Source: https://abc7.com/florida-free-ar-15-turkey-thanksgiving-special/14010400/

In 1997, in what became known as the North Hollywood shootout, two bank robbers wielding semi-automatic rifles including a Bushmaster were outgunning police, wounding 11 of them plus six civilians, until officers barged into a gun store.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/11/21/how-a-maine-businessman-made-the-ar-15-into-americas-best-selling-rifle/

Investigators also recovered nine 9-mm semi-automatic pistols, eight of which were ghost guns, and six high-capacity magazines.

Source: https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2023/03/16/3-are-charged-selling-ghost-guns-assault-style-rifles-massachusetts-new-york/

Isaac and Mathew Auchterlonie showed up at the bank on June 28, 2022, wearing full body armour and carrying legally purchased semi-automatic rifles, police said.

Source: https://www.baytoday.ca/national-news/bc-bank-robbers-primary-objective-was-to-shoot-and-kill-officers-police-6409331

“It’s what we call a semi-automatic machine.

Source: https://canberraweekly.com.au/r-clinic-local-doctor-takes-on-overseas-hair-transplant-market/

Later in this series of articles, we will discuss the many steps that Walmart has taken to reduce gun violence, including removing automatic and semi-automatic weapons and handguns from its stores.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bhaktimirchandani/2023/05/14/a-mothers-day-plea-how-investors-can-end-the-age-of-mass-shootings-part-one/

One week after a 15-year-old boy brought an AR-15 rifle to the campus of Bostrom High School in west Phoenix, court records obtained by 12News show the gun had a device that could have turned the semi-automatic weapon into a full-capacity gun.

Source: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/05/28/more-on-the-phoenix-high-school-rifle-case-n553968

On July 6, the city's violent crime suppression team arrested an individual in Hy's Steakhouse on 8th Avenue S.W. It's alleged that the suspect had a loaded semi-automatic handgun concealed in a bag.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-organized-crime-jodi-gach-stephen-schneider-1.6942918?cmp=rss

Police said Robert Card — seen in CCTV footage pointing a semi-automatic weapon with an extended clip as he walked into a bowling alley in the city of Lewiston — "should be considered armed and dangerous."

Source: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-police-launch-huge-manhunt-for-shooter-who-killed-at-least-22-187359

RCMP investigators searched an Ottawa home where Ryan was living in February 2022 and found “12 illegal handguns, a number of prohibited high-capacity magazines, ammunition, and a device used to convert a semi-automatic pistol to fully automatic,” Insp.

Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/bc-gangster-charged-ottawa-firearms-case

Simply put, of the 45,222 gun deaths in America in 2020, less than one percent were mass shootings that took place with assault-type or semi-automatic weapons.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/31/gun-violence-profiling-and-faulty-social-science/

State and local police identified Robert R. Card, 40, as a person of interest in the case after previously posting on Facebook photographs of a man wielding what appeared to be a semi-automatic rifle.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/police-hunt-for-man-linked-to-major-mass-shootings-in-lewiston-maine/article_01fbb919-dce1-5922-96bd-a7fa9679a009.html