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."