Anti-gun-control voters, though a minority in California, are intense and turned out in large numbers trying to oust her. To secure the ban’s passage, Feinstein agreed to a 10-year “sunset.” ...

As a San Francisco supervisor, Dianne Feinstein found Harvey Milk's body after he was shot. The assassination altered her political career and shaped her gun control views.

Dianne Feinstein led push for gun control 03:06. SAN FRANCISCO – During her three decades on Capitol Hill, one of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's top priorities was fighting the gun lobby.

congress ‘A champion': Lawmakers remember Feinstein as trailblazer for women’s rights, gun control House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi said she was “heartbroken” from Feinstein’s passing.

Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA's torture of foreign ...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 in a wave election known as "the Year of the Woman" and went on to champion gun control, has died at her ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Everyone knew that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban was going to be the toughest gun-control reform to achieve in the wake of the Newtown massacre.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a vocal advocate of gun-control measures who was known for trying to find common ground with Republicans during her three decades in the Senate, has died, her ...

Across the country, those who worked with Feinstein reflected on her path from San Francisco to Capitol Hill and her legislative resume, from championing gun control legislation to civil rights.

The assassination forever altered the course of Feinstein's political career and shaped her views on gun control — a defining legacy for the U.S. senator, who died Friday at age 90.