{"id":1564383,"date":"2022-07-21T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564383"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:35:32","slug":"house-of-representatives-panel-advances-bill-that-would-ban-assault-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-of-representatives-panel-advances-bill-that-would-ban-assault-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives Panel Advances Bill That Would Ban \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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-of-representatives-panel-advances-bill-that-would-ban-assault-weapons%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=1564383&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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-house-of-representatives\">House of Representatives<\/a> panel on July 20 advanced a bill that would ban the sale of a number of semi-automatic rifles, referred to by Democrats as \u201cassault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1808\">H.R. 1808<\/a>, or the\u00a0Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, was advanced in a 25\u201318 vote by the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have painfully learned in recent years, assault weapons\u2014especially when combined with high-capacity magazines\u2014are the weapon of choice for mass shootings because they\u2019re designed to kill with ruthless efficiency,\u201d Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jerrold-nadler\">Jerrold Nadler<\/a> (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the panel, said in a statement. \u201cThis legislation will remove these dangerous weapons of war from our communities and is another step towards keeping our children and families safe from gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who authored the legislation, said that a similar bill that was passed and signed into law, and in effect from 1994 through 2004, worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the ban expired, fatalities and shootings skyrocketed again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have returned mixed results as to whether the ban worked. One paper (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojp.gov\/pdffiles1\/nij\/grants\/204431.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) found that the use of banned guns declined, but the utilization of other types of firearms offset the decline.<\/p>\n<p>All Democrats voted to advance the bill. All Republicans voted against the advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jim-jordan\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-Ohio), the committee\u2019s ranking member, said the bill was the latest offered by Democrats that violates the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.\u2019 Plain and simple It doesn\u2019t say \u2018right to keep and bear muskets shall not be infringed.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t say, \u2018shall not be infringed unless Democrats say this weapon looks so scary we have to get rid of it,&#8217;\u201d he said before the vote.<\/p>\n<p> Full House Vote <\/p>\n<p>While Democrats hold a slim majority in the House, it\u2019s unclear whether Democrat leaders will hold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House of Representatives panel on July 20 advanced a bill that would ban the sale of a number of semi-automatic rifles, referred to by Democrats as \u201cassault weapons.\u201d H.R. 1808, or the\u00a0Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, was advanced in a 25\u201318 vote by the House Judiciary Committee. \u201cAs we have painfully learned in recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1564383","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\/1564383","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564383\/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=1564383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}