{"id":1525911,"date":"2022-06-22T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525911"},"modified":"2022-06-22T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:34:11","slug":"exclusive-house-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-rejects-senate-gun-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-rejects-senate-gun-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy Rejects Senate Gun Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fexclusive-house-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-rejects-senate-gun-grab%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=1525911&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kevin-McCarthy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged opposition to the Senate\u2019s bipartisan gun grab Wednesday after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-14-republicans-who-voted-to-advance-democrats-gun-control-wish-list-just-betrayed-their-base\/\">14<\/a> GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber joined Democrats Tuesday night to usher major gun legislation through Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n<p>The bill, now expected to pass the Senate by the end of the week with a filibuster-proof majority, makes it more difficult for 18- to 21-year-olds to own a firearm and encourages state \u201cred flag\u201d laws enhancing the power of the government to confiscate weapons from American citizens. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will oppose the Senate bill because provisions in it would place additional unnecessary impediments and burdens on [a] law-abiding citizen\u2019s right to own a firearm,\u201d McCarthy told The Federalist in an exclusive statement. \u201cWe must not have knee-jerk reactions in how the federal government approaches red flag laws, where Congress strong-arms states into passing laws that may violate the Second Amendment and deprive citizens their right to due process.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans support increased resources for school safety and mental health,\u201d McCarthy added. \u201cThat\u2019s why we recently supported Rep. Richard Hudson\u2019s STOP II Act on the House Floor, that could help address these deadly shootings. This bill, however, goes beyond those contours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the 80-page \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinema.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/bipartisan_safer_communities_act_text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bipartisan Safer Communities Act<\/a>\u201d moving through the Senate offers some resources for school safety and public health, the text of the legislation revealed hours before lawmakers voted in a procedural measure to move it forward is littered with ambiguous language taking aim at American gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill\u2019s numerous vague, open-ended provisions will almost surely be abused by prosecutors, cops, aggrieved family members, exes, and political opponents,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-do-something-gun-control-bill-does-little-but-erode-rights\/\">explained<\/a> Federalist Senior Editor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/First-Freedom\/David-Harsanyi\/9781501174018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gun author<\/a> David Harsanyi about the \u201c\u2018Do-Something\u2019 Gun Control Bill.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, in the meantime, the likelihood that any of its provisions will help mitigate mass shootings is very small,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Moreover, there is scant evidence that red flag laws do much to prevent violence. Most studies that contend to prove red flag laws work, do so by drilling into the consciousness of those who\u2019ve lost their guns and predicting their behavior. The Washington Post\u2019s Glenn Kessler, certainly no NRA champion, went through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2022\/uvalde-buffalo-mass-shootings-gun-control-laws\/?itid=sf_fact-checker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">every mass shooting since 2015<\/a>\u00a0and came up with only two instances where red flag laws might have potentially stopped a shooter. In one of them, the Parkland massacre, the police had ignored outright threats made by the shooter that would already have allowed them to take away his guns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill\u2019s Republican supporters in the upper chamber, however, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have almost ensured its passage to the Democrat-controlled House by next week. Republicans who voted for one of the largest firearm packages since 1994 are already facing blowback in their own states. Sen. John Cornyn, a lead negotiator on the bill, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/17\/sen-john-cornyn-booed-at-texas-gop-convention-over-willingness-to-surrender-to-democrats-on-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">booed<\/a> at the Texas GOP convention last week, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski\u2019s Alaska primary opponent, Kelly Tshibaka, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/kelly-tshibaka-lisa-murkowski-gun-control-alaska\/2022\/06\/17\/id\/1074921\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blasted<\/a> the incumbent lawmaker over support for the measure on Newsmax. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just more of Lisa Murkowski, pretending she supports the Second Amendment when she comes back to visit Alaska, but when she is with her friends, she\u2019s doing everything she can to betray Alaskans,\u201d Tshibaka said on the conservative network. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gun-control-law-talks-senate-critical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">good-faith<\/a>\u201d negotiations over the Senate gun bill all happened while the White House was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/white-house-refuses-to-deny-plans-to-halt-future-civilian-ammo-sales-from-lake-city-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developing potential plans<\/a> to choke the nation\u2019s ammo supply with a shutdown of a major manufacturer in northwestern Missouri. The Lake City ammunition plant provides 30 percent of the nation\u2019s 5.56mm ammo now in jeopardy of being cut off by government animosity towards civilian-owned firearms. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged opposition to the Senate\u2019s bipartisan gun grab Wednesday after 14 GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber joined Democrats Tuesday night to usher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1525911","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\/1525911","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}