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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, presided over by president and now acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein, top left, bow their heads in silence for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk who were shot to death at City Hall in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 27, 1978. Through decades of political life, no issue has motivated Dianne Feinstein more than gun violence, according to current and former colleagues and members of her staff. -
Acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein with Police Chief Charles Gain at left, addresses the more than 25,000 people jammed around San Francisco's City Hall, Nov. 28, 1978 as city residents staged a spontaneous memorial service for slain officials Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Man at right is not identified. -
San Francisco Acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein is escorted through City Hall by police chief Charles Gain in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 1978, after she met with other city officials to organize security arrangements for the funerals of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. Moscone and Milk were shot to death at City Hall on Monday. -
Mayor Dianne Feinstein, right, gets a kiss from Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California State Supreme Court in San Francisco, Dec. 4, 1978, after the Chief Justice swore in Mrs. Feinstein as the new mayor of San Francisco. She succeeds Mayor George Moscone, who along with Supervisor Harvey Milk was shot and killed in City Hall in November, 1978. -
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, accompanied by Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., holds an AR-15 assault-style rifle with a collapsible stock during a Capitol Hill news conference Friday March 22, 1996 after the House voted to repeal the two-year-old assault-style firearms ban. Feinstein, a key Senate sponsor of the ban, told reporters she was outraged by the House vote and promised: "This will be dead on arrival in the Senate." -
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The measure being unveiled Thursday is authored by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who wrote the original assault weapons ban. That law expired in 2004 when Congress refused to renew it under pressure from the National Rifle Association. -
Wearing a green ribbon pin for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, sits next to the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, as she prepares to begin a hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. -
With photos of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims in the background, Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. during the committee's hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.
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