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Every few months, the same kind of clip goes viral: a lawmaker asks a simple question — “define an assault weapon” or “define an assault rifle” — and the official on the receiving end either punts, ...

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up a challenge to Illinois’s ban on assault weapons, though not every justice on the high court agreed with the decision to do so. In a separate opinion, ...