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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill banning assault weapons, but it is unclear whether the legislation has enough support to pass a vote.
Democratic Representatives Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, have said they will not support the bill, while Republican representatives Chris Jacobs, RNY, and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Have said who are open to voting for a ban, according to The Hill. House Democrats have a four-vote margin.
The 2021 assault weapons ban was brought forward in a 25-18 vote, but no date has been set for a vote in the House.
“As we’ve learned too well in recent years, assault weapons, especially when combined with high-capacity magazines, are the weapon of choice for mass shootings,” said committee chairman Jerry Nadler, DN.Y ., during the marking of the bill. “These military-style weapons are designed to kill most people in the shortest time possible. There’s simply no place for them on our streets.”
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Assault-style rifles are hung inside a gun store in Dallas, Texas, September 13, 2004. (REUTERS / Jeff Mitchell JM)
Ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued that the bill would remove the rights of gun owners.
“Democrats know that this legislation will not reduce violent crime or reduce the likelihood of mass shootings, but they are obsessed with attacking the Second Amendment liberties of law-abiding Americans,” he said.
Deputy Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Said, “Come get your guns.”
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AR-15 rifles are on sale at the Guntoberfest gun show in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 6, 2017. (REUTERS / Joshua Roberts / File Photo)
The bill would make it a crime to “import, sell, manufacture, transfer or possess a semi-automatic assault weapon (SAW) or a high-capacity ammunition feeding device,” according to the bill’s summary. There will be some exceptions.
It would not include any “firearm that is (1) manually operated by screw, bomb, lever or sliding action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by the brand and model “.
The bill was first introduced in March last year.
President Jerry Nadler, DN.Y., observes during a hearing of the House Judicial Committee on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)
The legislation comes after the broader gun control bill passed in the Senate in 30 years after a series of mass shootings, including a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two dead teachers.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have also called for a ban on assault weapons.
“Assault weapons should be banned,” Biden said last week in the White House as he celebrated the signing of the bipartisan gun law. “They were banned. I led the fight in 1994. And then under pressure from the NRA and gun manufacturers and others, that ban was lifted in 2004. In those 10 years it was law, the mass shootings “.
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Former President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban in 1994 that expired in 2004.