Zoë Richards is the evening politics reporter for NBC News.
In a reversal, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine said he now supports a ban on assault-style rifles following shootings this week in his home state that left at least 18 people dead. During a news conference Thursday, Golden discussed his previous stance on legislation largely backed by fellow Democrats that would prohibit assault weapons and said he was wrong to oppose those measures.
Susan Collins, R-Maine, who called it a “dark day” and said that the deadly shootings at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston were the “worst mass shooting that the state of Maine has ever experienced — and could ever imagine.” Asked whether she would support an assault weapons ban, Collins told reporters: 'I think it is more important that we ban very high capacity magazines.' Collins noted her earlier support for an assault weapons ban when she backed the 1995 Federal Assault Weapons.
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