{"id":1495132,"date":"2022-05-27T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495132"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:59:43","slug":"rep-chris-jacobs-says-he-supports-assault-weapons-ban-for-something-like-an-ar-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chris-jacobs-says-he-supports-assault-weapons-ban-for-something-like-an-ar-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chris Jacobs Says He Supports \u2018Assault Weapons Ban\u2019 For \u2018Something Like An AR-15\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-chris-jacobs-says-he-supports-assault-weapons-ban-for-something-like-an-ar-15%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495132&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs announced his support for a firearm ban that would restrict ownership of AR-15-style weapons in the wake of the Texas school shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobs.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacobs<\/a> told the press Friday that he would support a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/26\/mitch-mcconnell-red-flag-laws-bipartisan-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gun control<\/a> bill that would ban Americans from owning assault rifles, according to a video of Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWhalenCT\/status\/1530244302907002881?s=20&#038;t=y2XAcEqFtgUp5CUpXxubWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> by WNY political reporter for <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/politics\/capital-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capital Tonight<\/a>, Ryan Whalen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be completely transparent of where I am in Congress,\u201d said Jacobs. \u201cIf an assault weapons ban bill came to the floor that would ban something like an AR-15, I would vote for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs accuses the Democratic Party of not having the backing among its members to pass \u201can assault weapons ban bill\u201d and argues that lack of support for the reason the Democrats haven\u2019t brought gun control legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, if you have noticed, the Democrats have not brought such a bill to the floor,\u201d said Jacobs. \u201cThere is not the political will on the Democratic side for that.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/25\/second-amendment-biden-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Second Amendment Is Not Absolute\u2019: Biden Demands More Gun Control)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Republican Congressman Chris Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJacobs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJacobs<\/a> today announcing he would support an assault weapons ban that would ban the purchases of a gun like an AR-15: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k1DIIZ9awP\">pic.twitter.com\/k1DIIZ9awP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Whalen (@RyanWhalenCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWhalenCT\/status\/1530244302907002881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have renewed calls to pass strict gun control laws after the Texas elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. Biden announced his support for gun control legislation Wednesday at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile they clearly will not prevent every tragedy, we know certain ones will have significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/25\/second-amendment-biden-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn\u2019t own a cannon. You couldn\u2019t own certain kinds of weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always been limitations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The actual effect of gun control legislation on decreasing violent crime is not settled science,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/washington-post-skeptical-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Washington Post in its newsletter Thursday.\u00a0\u201cThe evidence is thin that tougher gun laws would quickly and dramatically reduce rates of gun violence,\u201d writer Amber Phillips <a href=\"https:\/\/s2.washingtonpost.com\/camp-rw\/?trackId=6238c544d4094b5d0ac86a5a&#038;s=628ff1eb956121755a920f83&#038;linknum=4&#038;linktot=50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> in \u201cThe 5-Minute Fix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs announced his support for a firearm ban that would restrict ownership of AR-15-style weapons in the wake of the Texas school shooting.Jacobs told the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":1495166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}