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(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) What exactly is an “assault weapon”? Joe Biden’s nominee to head up the ATF famously said earlier this year during his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing that he wants to ban them, but couldn’t provide a definition of what an assault weapon is, exactly, when he was pressed by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. “An assault weapon would be, in the context of the question you asked, whatever Congress defines it as,” was Chipman’s response. On the face of it, that seems like a non-answer, but in a way Chipman was right. There is no definition of “assault w...

6 May 2021 Punchbowl News released a new tracking poll Thursday showing a majority of senior Democrat Capitol Hill aides believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) partisan socialist agenda will not pass Congress. Pelosi’s push to pass a partisan socialist agenda while Washington, DC, is under one-party rule looks like it will fail as the “gatekeepers and, in many cases, the decision-makers” believe there will not be enough votes to get her wishlist through, according to the poll. Only 36 percent of the Democrat staffers surveyed believe there is hope to pass H.R. 3, which is the ...

17 Mar 2021 Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D) is promoting an “Assault Weapons” ban and suggesting that she is doing so in order that her daughters can grow up in a country that will “protect them.” Duckworth suggested that “Congress has a duty to act” on gun control and responded to Congressional refusal to pass more gun laws by saying, “enough is enough.” She tweeted: I don’t want my daughters to have to grow up in a country that won’t protect them from firearm violence. People are dying and Congress has a duty to act. My colleagues and I introduced a ban on assault weap...