For the past year, the United States has been plagued by controversy over gun control legislation. On January 24, 2013, Senator Feinstein introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. The Assault Weapons Ban was a bill written to stop acts of selling, transferring, importing, and manufacturing military-style weapons . The NRA-ILA website quotes an excerpt from Feinstein's bill, which states: “Feinstein's new bill is as follows: Reduces, from two to one, the number of external features permitted on various firearms fire. The 1994 ban allowed the manufacture of various firearms only if assembled with no more than one feature listed in the law. Feinstein's new bill would ban the manufacture of the same firearms with even one of the features." (NRA-ILA) Wayne Lapierre, executive vice president of the NRA, said in 2009: “There is not a cent of difference between the guns you want to ban and the guns you don't want to ban. You're going to ban these semi-automatics, and then they're going to go to pistols, and then they're going to go to shotguns." Lapierre's statement supports the fact that recent gun ban legislation in the United States will not solve the problem of increased violence. The authors of the law did not understand the actual gun terminology, making this ban too broad and confusing. In 2012, Senator Feinstein drafted a new firearms ban. He invented a new definition of the term “assault weapon,” thus expanding the word beyond what its purpose should be. This will ban the use of many more weapons. Its definition includes the M1 carbine, the Ruger Mini-14 model, and almost all SKS models which are common and readily available weapons. It also includes any "half-…half-paper…honest and honest" person who now needs guns to protect themselves from illegal weapons in the hands of a criminal. The Department of Justice conducted a survey of inmates in 1997 and has showed that “80% had obtained weapons from family, friends, or illegal sources” (Gold, 112). The 2013 gun ban legislation will not solve the problem of violence, but instead will gradually promote it they did not use appropriately the correct terminology related to firearms, which made the ban too broad and caused confusion. Furthermore, the Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to bear arms for self-defense against criminals and, if necessary, a dictatorial and overstretched government. Therefore, this recent gun ban is not helpful to the general public because the ban is too broad and removes the right we have as US citizens to own any type of firearm...