The House of Representatives is set to take up a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons on Friday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced.
PUBLISHED 12:27 PM ET Jul. 29, 2022The House of Representatives is set to take up a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons on FridayThe effort comes in the wake of several mass shootings this year, including at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois
The effort comes in the wake of several mass shootings this year, including at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Authorities say the gunmen in all three shootings, which killed 38 people in all, used AR-15-style rifles.
“AR-15 style firearms have become the weapon of choice for shooters looking to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible and have been used in the deadliest mass shootings in our history, from Sandy Hook to Parkland to Uvalde,” Cicilline said in a statement. House leadership was set to pair the measure with police funding and other safety bills, but that decision faced backlash from members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats. Pelosi said at her weekly press conference that the House will consider those measures in mid-August.Democrats argued that the bill was necessary to protect Americans from the scourge of gun violence.
But Republicans, like Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, accused Democrats of wanting "to take all guns from all people because they can't stand the Second Amendment."President Joe Biden last month signed a bipartisan gun bill, the first federal gun reform legislation in nearly 30 years.
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