{"id":1556883,"date":"2022-07-15T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556883"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:19:50","slug":"house-democrats-targeting-at-least-40-specific-ar-15-rifles-in-new-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-targeting-at-least-40-specific-ar-15-rifles-in-new-assault-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Targeting at Least 40 Specific AR-15 Rifles in New \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban"},"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\">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%2Fhouse-democrats-targeting-at-least-40-specific-ar-15-rifles-in-new-assault-weapons-ban%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=1556883&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>The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will take up proposed legislation next week that would ban certain \u201cassault weapons,\u201d the panel said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will meet next Wednesday, July 20, to mark up the bill, which \u201cwould ban the sale, import, manufacture or transfer of certain semi-automatic weapons,\u201d the panel said in a statement.\u00a0If the measure passes the committee, House Democratic leaders, who control the chamber, could bring it to the floor for a full vote before sending it to the 50-50 divided Senate, where it needs 60 votes to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, if enacted, would allow the sale of such weapons that are already lawfully possessed and would not apply to antique, manually-operated, or certain hunting and sporting firearms, the House panel stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the text of the bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1808\/cosponsors\">pdf<\/a>), which is backed by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), it would ban at least 40 specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ar-15\">AR-15<\/a>-style rifles, including the\u00a0\u201cBushmaster ACR, Bushmaster Carbon 15, Bushmaster MOE series, Bushmaster XM15, Chiappa Firearms MFour rifles, Colt Match Target rifles, CORE Rifle Systems CORE15 rifles, Daniel Defense M4A1 rifles, Devil Dog Arms 15 Series rifles,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would ban certain AR-style pistols such as the \u201cDoubleStar Corporation AR pistol, DPMS AR\u201315 pistol, Jesse James Nomad AR\u201315 pistol, Olympic Arms AR\u201315 pistol, Osprey Armament MK\u201318 pistol, POF USA AR pistols, Rock River Arms LAR 15 pistol,\u201d and others, according to bill\u2019s text.<\/p>\n<p> Impact on Gun Violence <\/p>\n<p>A federal ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d was enacted in 1994 but ended in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>A 2004 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2004\/aug\/16\/20040816-114754-1427r\/\">study<\/a> released by the\u00a0National Institute of Justice, a federal agency, found that the law did not reduce violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation\u2019s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will take up proposed legislation next week that would ban certain \u201cassault weapons,\u201d the panel said on Friday. The committee will meet next Wednesday, July 20, to mark up the bill, which \u201cwould ban the sale, import, manufacture or transfer of certain semi-automatic weapons,\u201d the panel said in a statement.\u00a0If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1556883","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\/1556883","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556883\/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=1556883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}