{"id":1525583,"date":"2022-06-22T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525583"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:50:28","slug":"gun-control-bill-advances-in-the-senate-with-help-from-14-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-control-bill-advances-in-the-senate-with-help-from-14-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Bill Advances In The Senate \u2014 With Help From 14 Republicans"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgun-control-bill-advances-in-the-senate-with-help-from-14-republicans%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=1525583&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--><p class=\"teads-adCall\">The bill could be passed later this week by the Senate and then move onto the House, where it is expected to pass. The bill would then go to President Biden\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"teads-adCall\">Notably, the 80-page legislation includes language on highly controversial so-called red flag laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"teads-adCall\">According to Fox News, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/senate-votes-advance-bipartisan-gun-052357834.html\">bill<\/a> \u201cprovides grants for states that implement their own red flag laws and offers additional funding for both school safety measures and mental health services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, though, claimed on the Senate floor Tuesday that the bill \u201cwould not create a national red flag law, adding that states could receive the funding regardless of whether they enact such a program,\u201d The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/3529731-texas-gop-rebukes-cornyn-rejects-gun-legislation-framework\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe measure also creates penalties for straw purchases of firearms, requires more gun sellers to register as Federally Licensed Firearm Dealers and closes the so-called boyfriend loophole by prohibiting gun access for people convicted of domestic abuse against an intimate partner,\u201d Fox News noted of the gun control legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights groups are already slamming the legislation and the Republicans who helped advance it.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Owners of America (GOA) said in a press release sent to The Daily Wire that the legislation \u201cwould encourage Backdoor Universal Background Checks by redefining many private sellers as gun dealers, financially incentivize states to enact unconstitutional \u2018red-flag\u2019 laws, and would allow for so-called \u2018enhanced background checks,\u2019 which are arbitrary delays in transferring firearms to adults not yet 21 years-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, so-called \u2018conservative\u2019 Senators are making clear they believe that the rights of American citizens can be compromised away,\u201d Erich Pratt, GOA\u2019s Senior Vice President, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear, they have NO AUTHORITY to compromise with our rights, and we will not tolerate legislators who are willing to turn gun owners into second-class citizens,\u201d Pratt continued. \u201cGOA fully opposes this unconstitutional legislation and will continue to encourage our millions of members to make their voices heard to their elected officials on this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below are the 14 Republicans who voted for the bill on the procedural vote:<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Todd Young (R-IN)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Republicans joined a largely Democrat effort to advance a gun control bill in the Senate on Tuesday night. Notable Republican senators, including Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), helped Democrats pass a procedural vote, 64 to 34, a mere two hours after the text of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1525617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525583","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\/1525583","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}