The US House of Representatives passes legislation to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years.
However, it is likely to stall in the 50-50 Senate. The House legislation was shunned by Republicans, who dismissed it as an election-year strategy by DemocratsThe bill comes at a time of intensifying concerns about gun violence and shootings — the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, NY; massacre of school children in Uvalde, Texas; and the July Fourth shootings of revellers in Highland Park, Illinois.
Meanwhile, Democrats argued that the ban on the weapons makes sense, portraying Republicans as extreme and out of step with Americans. Mr Jordan replied by inviting her to his congressional district to debate him on the Second Amendment, saying he believed most of his constituents "probably agree with me and agree with the United States Constitution".NRA Institute for Legislative Action executive director Jason Quimet said in a statement after the vote that "barely a month after" the
That bipartisan bill was the first of its kind after years of failed efforts to confront the gun lobby.
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