US House Passes Semiautomatic Gun Ban After 18-Year Lapse
Washington - The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semiautomatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the
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Washington - The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semiautomatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the
The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings…
The bill would make it unlawful to import, sell or manufacture a long list of semi-automatic weapons. It exempts those already in possession.
The vote by the Democratic-majority House was a direct response to recent mass shootings in the US. The bill has little chance of progressing in the Senate because of Republican opposition.
Congress had allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 on the manufacture and sales of the weapons to expire a decade later.