Does this only include scary looking black pistols and shotguns or all handguns and shotguns? No word whether a muzzleloader would still be legal or if Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Pres. Barack Obama want to outlaw those too.

(UPI) - WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) — A retooled U.S. assault-weapons ban to be introduced Thursday was to include handguns and shotguns in addition to rifles, The Washington Times reported.

The bill, by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., titled “The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013,” was also expected to decrease the number of military-style features a gun may have before it’s considered an assault weapon to one from two, the newspaper said.

An assault weapon is typically a semiautomatic firearm having features similar to those of a military firearm. Military-style features include pistol grips, flash suppressors, bayonet lugs or grenade launchers.

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Feinstein’s bill would also create a national gun registry for the government to track lawful gun owners, the Times said.

Magazines, or ammunition storage and feeding devices within or attached to a repeating firearm, would be limited to 10 rounds, the newspaper said.

President Barack Obama said a top priority is to get “an assault weapons ban that is meaningful” passed this year.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., was to provide the backdrop for the Feinstein bill as Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, as well as Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty, whose district includes Newtown, were to join Feinstein, officials said.

Twenty students and six staff members at the elementary school were killed with an assault weapon.

Blumenthal told Hearst Newspapers the new bill would “be a more stringent measure than the assault weapon ban that existed from 1994 to 2004.”

He said the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would work hand in hand with heightened school security and mental-health reform.

Quote via: UPI.