{"id":1562774,"date":"2022-07-20T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562774"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:19:42","slug":"death-wish-house-democrats-may-try-to-pass-an-assault-weapon-ban-with-gop-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-wish-house-democrats-may-try-to-pass-an-assault-weapon-ban-with-gop-support\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death Wish\u2019: House Democrats May Try To Pass An \u2018Assault Weapon\u2019 Ban With GOP Support"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdeath-wish-house-democrats-may-try-to-pass-an-assault-weapon-ban-with-gop-support%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=1562774&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>Faced with internal opposition, Democratic Party leadership in the House of Representatives may attempt to pass an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban with support from outgoing Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/12\/dianne-feinstein-gun-control-assault-weapons-ban-ar-15\/\">introduced<\/a> the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 Act in March of that year, although the bill has not yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1808\/all-actions?r=2&#038;overview=closed&#038;s=3#tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a> out of the House Judiciary Committee. In practice, the legislation would ban most semi-automatic weapons, including AR-15s. More than 200 Democrats in the lower chamber are co-sponsors of the legislation, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a margin of only four votes to pass the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Two moderate Democrats, Jared Golden of Maine and Henry Cuellar of Texas, have already come out against the legislation, while others facing competitive GOP challengers remain undecided. Golden and outgoing Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader were the only Democrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2022245\">vote<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/7910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Protecting Our Kids Act<\/a>, which would prohibit individuals under the age of 21 from possessing semi-automatic rifles.<\/p>\n<p>Other swing-district Democrats are undecided, but unlikely to support the bill. Those include Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader and Arizona Rep. Tom O\u2019Halleran, <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/7-20-22-punchbowl-news-am\/\">according<\/a> to Punchbowl News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a bill that destroyed the Democrats in 1994. I guess, do we really have a death wish list as Democrats?\u201d Schrader, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/oregon-kurt-schrader-loses-primary-jamie-mcleod-skinner\/\">lost<\/a> his primary in May, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/19\/house-democrats-gun-laws-00046675\">Politico<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/biden-94-assault-weapons-ban\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Biden Stretches Truth On The \u201994 Assault Weapons Ban)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7479329\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7479329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7479329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kurt-schrader-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7479329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JUNE 23: Representative Kurt Schrader, a Democrat from Oregon, questions witnesses during a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several outgoing Republicans have suggested that they would support the ban, leaving a potential way forward for the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an assault weapons ban bill came to the floor that would ban something like an AR-15, I would vote for it,\u201d New York Rep. Chris Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/republican-support-assault-weapons-ban\/\">said<\/a>, just days before <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/chris-jacobs-retires-ar-15-ban-support\/\">announcing<\/a> his retirement after one term in Congress. Jacobs added that he believed the issue is moot, since there is no \u201cpolitical will on the Democratic side\u201d for such legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/29\/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-retire\/\">announced<\/a> his retirement in October 2021, has also claimed to be \u201copen\u201d to a ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gonna depend on what it looks like because there\u2019s a lot of nuances on what constitutes certain things, but I\u2019m getting to the point where I have to wonder, maybe somebody to own one, maybe you need an extra license, maybe you need extra training. And so the question is, is it a ban versus is it an additional certification?\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/29\/adam-kinzinger-ar-15-ban-uvalde-shooting\/\">told<\/a> CNN in the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the fourteen House Republicans who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/24\/bipartisan-safer-communities-act-house-gun-control-bill-joe-biden-sign\/\">supported<\/a> the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will not return to Congress in 2023, suggesting more potential votes for an assault weapons ban. Five, including Jacobs and Kinzinger, are retiring, while South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice lost a primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is a bill that destroyed the Democrats in 1994&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"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-1562774","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\/1562774","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562774\/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=1562774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}