(FOX 9) - Nine Minnesota mayors representing almost 20% of the state's population are demanding a ban on assault weapons .

A call to action

Too easy to kill too many:

They see the Annunciation mass shooting as a call to action that can't be ignored.

But the change they’re asking for could be hard to get at the Capitol.

The mayors say it’s just too easy for someone to rattle off dozens or even hundreds of rounds of gunfire in a short amount of time.

And they say we have evidence from a 1994-2004 federal ban that an assault weapons ban reduces mass shootings.

Last Wednesday, 116 rounds of gunfire aimed at Annunciation Church came from an AR-style rifle in a short period of time, according to police search warrants.

"Weapons of war are in the hands of people who should never,

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