<Tr> <Td> Steyr AUG </Td> <Td> Imports banned in 1989 * </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> INTRATEC TEC - 9, TEC - DC9, TEC - 22 </Td> <Td> Legal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Revolving cylinder shotguns such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12 </Td> <Td> Legal </Td> </Tr> <P> Gun control advocates and gun rights advocates have referred to at least some of the features outlined in the federal Assault Weapon Ban of 1994 as cosmetic . The NRA Institute for Legislative Action and the Violence Policy Center both used the term in publications they released in September 2004 when the ban expired . In May 2012, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence said, "the inclusion in the list of features that were purely cosmetic in nature created a loophole that allowed manufacturers to successfully circumvent the law by making minor modifications to the weapons they already produced". The term was repeated in several stories after the 2012 Aurora shooting and Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting . </P>

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