U.S. Rep. Dina Titus may have help in her push to revive a long-mothballed federal ban on assault weapons similar to those used in recent mass shootings in Southern Florida and Las Vegas.

Titus, D-Nev., said Wednesday that she will join Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline’s proposed reintroduction of a federal prohibition on semiautomatic weapons.

One day earlier, U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen — the Democratic front-runner in Nevada’s upcoming U.S. Senate race — said she too would vote for a ban if given a chance.

 “I have to see if those (bills) are out there, but I would support that,” Rosen, D-Nev., told the Reno Gazette Journal. “Because I think, as you’ve seen, lots of hunters and sportsmen know they are unfortunately used too many times to kill too many people.

“I think most common sense people feel like you could do something and it’s not going to affect them.”

A new, Titus-backed federal weapons ban proposal — sketched out in a Tuesday memo from Cicilline to congressional colleagues — is expected to be introduced next week. It appears to closely resemble a 10-year federal ban first enacted in 1994, though it’s authors promise to go a step further by barring the import and duplication of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

Democrats launched several failed attempts to resuscitate the earlier weapons ban after it expired in 2004. Their prospects don’t look much brighter today, when Republicans hold firm control over both the executive and congressional branches of government.

Yet Rosen, reached before a Q-and-A with LGBT advocates in downtown Reno, didn’t sound deterred by the long odds.

The first-term congresswoman has already joined legislative efforts to ban bump stocks, restrict the size of gun magazines and lift limits on gun violence research.

But she fears those efforts won’t go far enough to prevent large-scale gun massacres such as the 58-person slaughter seen last year in Las Vegas, or last week’s shooting that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Members of the Florida legislature on Tuesday declined to take up a statewide ban on assault weapons such as the AR-15 used to kill students and faculty in Parkland on Valentine's Day.

Only hours later, President Donald Trump moved to crack down on so-called bump stocks — a controversial gun modification used by the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooter that allows a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster. Trump’s order directs the U.S Department of Justice to come up with regulations to prohibit the oft-derided gun add-ons.

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller — who may have to defend his seat against Rosen in November’s general election — welcomed the move, writing in a statement to the RGJ that he was pleased the administration was taking action on the issue. Heller’s office did not directly answer questions on what other actions, if any, he would support in the interest of preventing gun violence.

Nevada’s senior Republican senator in 2013 voted against legislation to expand background checks and limit ownership of assault rifles.

Danny Tarkanian, the pro-Trump Las Vegas businessman challenging Heller in June’s Republican primary election, said last week he wouldn’t support any additional gun control restrictions.

Tarkanian told the RGJ he favored a nationwide expansion of concealed carry rights now afforded to trained, permitted Nevada gun owners. He said he wouldn’t have a problem with those gun owners toting firearms on Capitol Hill, where guns have long been strictly prohibited even as federal gun statutes have grown more permissive.

U.S. Reps. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., and Mark Amodei, R-Nev., did not return requests for comment on the proposed assault weapons ban.

Kihuen has previously expressed support for such a measure.

Amodei has backed efforts to loosen existing restrictions on interstate gun sales, but also urged a federal review of bump stock policies in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas.

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., co-sponsored legislation to expand background checks and ban bump stocks after that shooting, but has offered little insight into her position on an assault weapons ban.

“The senator will review any legislation that will reduce the scourge of gun violence in the country,” Masto spokeswoman Bianca Recto wrote in a statement. “The senator will continue to consider proposals that could prevent firearms from getting in the hands of dangerous individuals.”

Elected leaders from both major parties have weathered successive waves of public pressure to take action on gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings. None of those outpourings resulted in new federal gun control legislation.

The December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School did spur nearly two dozen executive orders from then-President Barack Obama. Another flurry of executive actions followed four years later, after 14 people were killed in a hail of gunfire at a government office in San Bernardino.

Those efforts failed to prevent some 209 deaths attributed to mass shootings since 2016.