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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee late Wednesday passed  legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons, in a renewed push to ban the guns most commonly used in recent mass shootings.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has passed new legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons.

From the editorial: At the margins, these measures may save some lives. But unless we abandon the death pact we have entered with an overly broad interpretation of the Second Amendment, mass killings will continue apace.

House Democrats can afford to lose only four votes if Republicans are united in opposition to the ban.

All the Republicans present at the Judiciary Committee voted against the Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2021, but it will now advance to the whole House.

House Democrats pushed ahead Wednesday with legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons as they considered their most far-reaching response yet to this summers series of mass shootings.

Idahoans deserve to live without fearing for their life – whether at the supermarket, school or home. Incidents of gun violence around the country have rightly focused efforts to protect

For the first time in two decades, a congressional panel has moved to prohibit the sale, transfer and possession of assault weapons in the United States.

The party-line 25-18 vote followed recent mass shootings in which AR-15 style rifles were used — in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered, and Buffalo, New York, where 10 people were killed.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee late Wednesday passed legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons