The House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider legislation Wednesday that would strengthen gun control laws in the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, the committee said Tuesday.
The combination of several bills is collectively known as the Protecting Our Kids Act and was introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
“In the last 2 weeks, 31 people have been murdered and another 20 injured at the hands of two 18-year-olds legally armed with semiautomatic assault rifles. It is time for Congress to act,” Nadler wrote on Twitter, referring to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, as well as the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.
This comes after President Joe Biden earlier Tuesday promised to meet with members of Congress on gun policy, one week after the school shooting at Robb Elementary School left 21 people dead.
“I will meet with the Congress on guns, I promise you,” Biden told reporters.
The legislation would “provide for an increased age limit on the purchase of certain firearms, prevent gun trafficking, modernize the prohibition on untraceable firearms, encourage the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.”
Any legislation passing the House would then advance to the Senate and require 60 votes to pass.
If passed, it would increase the purchase age for semi-automatic rifles and ban the import, sale and possession of high-capacity magazines. The legislation would also establish requirements, regulating firearm storage on residential premises.
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“Guns do only what their handlers manipulate them to do.”
When Cain killed Able with a rock.
God did not blame the rock and confiscate all rocks.
God blamed Able for his actions and punished Able, not the rock.
The treasonous, demonic, Democrat Party cult has removed God from all public schools and government.
What God has condemned as unacceptable abominations, the demonic, Democrat Party cult has approved of, encouraged, supported and protected.
This immoral, satanic Democrat Party cult and their corrupt disciples have become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
IF they really want to protect kids.. STOP SUPPORTING ABORTION!
You cannot get criminals who disobey the laws,,,,political of street, criminals, to stop what evil they are doing by passing more laws? Dimwitted Democrats by passing more laws just manage to create more laws for them to break and thereby create more criminals. Breaking the laws is what makes them criminals Duh! How about some stiff fines, jail time or a one-way ride to hell on old Sparkey. Hillary come quickly !
What makes me scream, is the # of times we’ve heard of this or that repeat criminal, BEING ARRESTED WITH AN ILLEGAL WEAPON on him, going to jail/being bailed out, AND THEN HIM GETTING ARRESTED LATER< with yet ANOTHER ILLEGAL WEAPON on him?!
WHY ARE they not goig after all the guns IN THE HANDS OF THESE gangs~
So, their revolution continues. Their , meaning : the Marxist Radical Democrats. Don’t forget Antifa and BLM.
Be wary of Democrats “Protecting Our Kids”, we’ve seen how they protected them over the past two years: toddlers having to wear masks and parents punished if they come off, remote learing which marginalized students from peer contact resulting in depression and suicide, mandating vaccines to the least vulnerable but having dire health consequences, teaching racial division, indoctrination of inappropriate sex topics to school children, et al. Most of them should be placed on some manner of ALERT list.
When democrats won’t enforce laws and release criminals back on the streets. It’s their fault. Stop blaming guns and cops
“Lia Thomas created a buzz earlier this year as she turned in some incredible times in the pool on her way to the 500 freestyle title at the NCAA swimming and diving championships.”
I don’t know what to say. She has proven she can do just as well as a man. I is too bad that girls can’t, but that is just biology. Perhaps there should be a division for girls.
WRONG article!!