Here is what we know about potential new gun legislation and regulations.
Key point: Fears over gun restrictions always leads to a spike in ammunition and weapons. At this moment, there is a new piece of legislation being proposed in the House.
Ammunition has been in short supply in recent months, and it could be well into the second half of the year or even later until supply is able to meet demand.
Strong sales of firearms in the past year since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, as well as a slowdown in production as many suppliers were forced to shutter during last year s stay-at-home orders, have led to empty shelves.
Congress faces make-or-break moment to secure bipartisan deals on key Biden priorities
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President Joe Biden‘s bipartisan push faces a crucial moment on Capitol Hill this month where talks over several big-ticket items could lead to major legislative victories hailed by both parties or they could collapse and prompt a bitter round of recriminations and open partisan warfare.
It’s a big week for talks: On Wednesday, Biden is slated to host his first meeting at the White House with Republican and Democratic leadership from the House and Senate since taking office. The following day, he’ll meet with six GOP senators on infrastructure.
Clyburn: Qualified immunity does not need to be part of police reform bill
“If we don’t get qualified immunity now, then we will come back and try to get it later. But I don’t want to see us throw out a good bill because we can’t get a perfect bill, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said.
House Majority Whip
Jim Clyburn (D-SC) says that he would compromise on police reform legislation that did not end
qualified immunity the legal doctrine that protects government officials, in this case, police officers, from civil lawsuits.
“I will never sacrifice good on the altar of perfect. I just won’t do that. I know what the perfect bill will be. We have proposed that. I want to see good legislation. And I know that, sometimes, you have to compromise,” said Clyburn on Sunday’s episode of
It wasn’t the exact same speech, but the words were familiar and the message was identical.
President Biden addressed the disappointing April jobs report on Monday, just as he did on Friday. Economists had expected the economy to create as many as 1 million jobs in that month, but employers added just 266,000. Biden insists that everything will be all right.
It takes time to recover from a once-in-a-century pandemic, he said, urging patience both days and no doubt sensing the political danger a slowing economy puts on his ambitious infrastructure package and other spending proposals.
On Friday, the president asserted that his $1.9 trillion stimulus package was a long-term play: “We never thought that after the first 50 or 60 days everything would be fine.” On Monday, he reiterated that he never said, and no serious analyst ever said, “that climbing out of the deep, deep hole our economy was in would be simple, easy, immediate, or perfectly studied.”
House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Sunday said Democrats should not delay new policing reform legislation even if a provision on ending civil lawsuit protections currently afforded to police officers is not included, arguing that the party can push to end qualified immunity at another time.