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"Sunset clauses aren't reliable mechanisms (patriot act)."

I don't know how often sunset clauses are used in (US) federal legislation, but I do recall that the original "Assault Weapons Ban" of 1994[1] had, and eventually utilized, a sunset clause. The law did, in fact, expire in its entirety in 2004.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban



That's a good contrapoint, and one I'll have to read up on.




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