What do you do if you’re the chief executive of a state and you want to ban so-called “assault weapons,” but you’ve never managed to get the legislature to do your dirty work for you? If you’re the governor of Rhode Island, you try to get such a ban by more backdoor means.

According to an alert from Gun Owners of America (GOA), Rhode Island Democrat Gov. Daniel McKee recently inserted funding for a ban on many common semi-automatic firearms into his recently released FY 2026 budget proposal, causing alarm for Ocean State gun owners.

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