(EFE).- The Democrat-controlled lower house of the United States on Friday passed a bill to ban assault-style weapons in the country.
However, the proposal is likely to stall in the Senate, where the Democrats have a narrow majority.
The House approved the bill, presented by Democratic Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, with 217 votes in favor and 213 before the August recess.
Almost the entire Democratic caucus apart from five lawmakers voted for the measure, which was backed by only two Republicans.
Two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Chris Jacobs, R-N.Y., voted yes. Five Democrats, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oreg., and Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wisc. voted no.
The proposal seeks a ban on the sale, manufacture, transfer or import of various semiautomatic assault weapons, semiautomatic pistols and semiautomatic shotguns and comes after recent shootings in the country, in which assault rifles were used.
“When guns are the number one killer of children in America, when more children die from guns than active-duty police and active-duty military combined, we have to act,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement after the vote.
“There can be no greater responsibility than to do all we can to ensure the safety of our families, our children, our homes, our communities, and our nation,” he added, vowing to “not stop fighting” to get the bill to advance.
The vote in Congress came during the final phase of the trial of the confessed perpetrator of a shooting that claimed 17 lives at a high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018, using an assault-style weapon.
The US passed a federal ban on assault weapons in the country in 1994, but it expired in 2004 without Congress renewing it.
In June, the US House of Representatives approved a historic deal to tighten gun control across the board.
This initiative includes measures to tighten background checks on those under 21 years of age and extends the so-called “red flag laws” to the entire country, which allow the activation of a legal procedure to confiscate firearms from those believed to pose a danger to others or to themselves. EFE
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It’s still not constitutional. Good luck in changing the constitution. Hell when it was passed you could own a canon.
You can still own a cannon.
The communist Democrats along with two RINOS, are complicit in destroying the Constitution. “I am the government, I will take away all of your guns, I will take away your food, I will make it too expensive for you to drive or to own your own car, I will make you poor. You will be my slaves in our Orwell’s1984 thought police society. We will tell you how to think. We are your government!!!!!”
As reagan said “the most scariest phrase around is, we are from the govt and we are here to help”
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Chris Jacobs, R-N.Y. have committed treason in the name of “feeling good” in the face of our Nation’s destruction.
WHO’s gonna hold their feet to the fire for it NOT BEING?
Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You’ve stripped away our heritage,
You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question “Why?”
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
“Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation’s history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation?
Amounts to nothing—pure posturing and grandstanding.
Somebody slap that smile off of Pelosi’s face.
What this article ignored is the actual words of H.R. 1808 which begins with the following:
“This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD).”
You read that right. It would be illegal to own an AR or AK style weapon and their magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. I expect that this would include my Ruger 10-22 and Mini-14 rifles both being semiautomatic. Of course the law would be UN-Constitutional but just like what has been passed in Kommiefornia, they don’t care knowing that to legally challenge it is a long and costly process.
My question is what army do they plan on using to confiscate the 27,000,000 plus AR style weapons owned by private citizens.
Hell, many store bought pistols, have higher than a 10 round magazine… AS Standard!
England once attempted to disarm us and the United State of America was born. We were born as a Christian nation, and God has blessed us over the years, beginning with our birth as a nation. No thinking person can believe that a ragtag militia of colonialists defeated the most powerful military in the world without divine intervention. Now the radical left knows that it cannot take over the government unless we are completely unarmed, because they know that the core of our country is made up of Christians with the same mindset and beliefs of our founding fathers. The only thing which can save our nation is divine intervention to purge the country of the evil which is growing within it. Obtaining Republican majorities in Congress is nothing more than a bandage unless they purge the governmental bureaucracy of the evil which permeates it and defund the evil taking over our great institutions. Our possession of weapons gives us the ability to partially hold in check, those who would destroy us as we attempt to restore our Constitutional law and order, and we must never allow ourselves to be disarmed. To this end what is needed is prayer to start a Christian revival on a national level. Anything less and our Republic is doomed to extinction, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I pray that God will bless us all.
Luke 22:36
All true, except the part about America being majority Christian. True Christians are in the minority in America.
First off they should stop calling them “assault weapons” as even this article does. AR does not stand for assaut rifle as many ignorant liberals believe. It stands for Armalite rifle, Armalite was the first company to make them before licensing the right to Colt. If anything it has become the MSR or modern day sporting rifle and is just a basic semi automatic rifle, not used by a single military anywhere in the world.
Secondly, what the lyng left tyrant wannabes led by Pelosi, Shumer etc… conveniently dont tell you is that in 1994 as part of the Clinton “assault weapons” ban, the DOJ was ordered to study the effects of the ban on violent crime and mass shootings for the entire 10 years of its duration. Of course they found that the ban had exactly 0 % effect on any of that which is why it was repealed in 2004 by Bush, and not because he was a Texas republican.
Third and obviously it is clearly unconstitutional which of course the democrats care little about, and yet they rant and rave over the SCOTUS over turning Roe v Wade which ironically is mentioned nowhere in the constitution what so ever. Their duplicitness knows no bounds.. But perhaps what is most sad is that they posture for political points with this instead of doing anything that would actually protect school children or anyone for that matter.
THE Truth doesn’t matter to these traitors.. NEVER HAS.
I do not own one but the split second they start trying to take our right to bear arms, that will be the even shorter split secomd that I will become the owner of two or more of these weapons. I will sound the dinner bell and ask they come and get it – dinner that is.
I really never had much desire to own a semi auto weapon. I prefer revolver handguns, lever action rifles, and pump shotguns. But with the ridiculous thinking of the dummycrats with the picture of the grinning bag of puke, I guess if I wanted to do a mass shooting it would be alright with the weapons I own. But then again, with all this talk about prohibiting the future sales of semi auto weapon I might just go out and buy an AR15 as a way of flipping off the marxist dummycrats.