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Yes he was... He fully supported the ban..
Can you show where the votes of anyone were actually changed by Reagan's support?This article
On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons. At the time, President Clinton was battling Republicans, conservative Democrats and the NRA to pass a bill barring many semiautomatic rifles.
Clinton needed all the help he could get it. He got it from Reagan, who still carried great weight in the Republican Party, as well as Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
You do know that neither the 1994 ban nor any current proposals take any "assault weapons" away, right?