No, it would stop the sale/manufacture of them too, further reducing the numbers.
What do you expect them to do?
Like the NRA and RWNJ's claim, no knock warrant at 2AM, guns drawn, to confiscate a single 40 or 50 round magazine?
You're FOS.
Most reviews of the 1994 version of the assault weapons ban point to loopholes in the text of the bill that, some argue, made it less effective than some would have wanted.
The bill specifically changed the federal criminal code "to prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or possession of a semiautomatic assault weapon," however, it specified which semiautomatic assault weapons were included.
It passed the House in August 1994, with a vote of 235-195, and the reconciled version passed the Senate four days later.
The bill that ultimately became law was passed in the Senate with a vote of 95-4 in November 1993.
It was signed into law by Clinton as part of a larger crime bill on Sept. 13, 1994.
There were only 4 republican senators in 1994?
Just because a democrat introduced the bill, doesn't mean republicans can't add amendments and that's what they did, sabotaging the bill.
Less magazine capacity, the fewer people would take bullets for granted, thus better shooting.
The 2nd amendment as written doesn't give "prima facie" to all weapons, it took a court to rule on that.
In
Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016), the Supreme Court reiterated its earlier rulings that "the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding" and that its protection is not limited to "only those weapons useful in warfare".
NOTHING is guaranteed, it may have or not.
Lower speed limits don't eliminate car crashes and deaths but it helps.
The law lowering the milliliter of alcohol content in a person's blood doesn't eliminate DWI's but it helps.