{"id":1579815,"date":"2022-07-29T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579815"},"modified":"2022-07-29T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T23:19:14","slug":"house-passes-assault-weapons-ban-along-party-lines-likely-doomed-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-assault-weapons-ban-along-party-lines-likely-doomed-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban Along Party Lines, Likely Doomed in the Senate"},"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\">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%2Fhouse-passes-assault-weapons-ban-along-party-lines-likely-doomed-in-the-senate%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=1579815&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-house-of-representatives\">House of Representatives<\/a> on July 29 passed legislation that would ban so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d and high-capacity magazines.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and dubbed the \u201cAssault Weapons Ban Act,\u201d passed in a mostly party-line\u00a0217\u2013213 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Though the definition of \u201cassault weapon\u201d has long been contested, the bill defines such weapons as \u201csemiautomatic assault weapon[s] or large capacity ammunition feeding device[s]\u201d and makes the importation, manufacturing, transferring, or possession of such items a crime.<\/p>\n<p>This would also include some semiautomatic handguns.<\/p>\n<p>The bill exempts firearms that require a manual action between rounds to prepare the gun to fire again, including things like bolt-, pump-, lever-, or slide-action mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Also exempt are firearms that have been rendered permanently inoperable or are classified as antiques. In addition, the bill contains a short list of rifle and shotgun models that are specifically exempted.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also allows the\u00a0importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of otherwise-prohibited firearms for law enforcement or authorized research purposes, as well as for activities related to securing nuclear materials. Retired law enforcement officers would also be permitted to own the banned weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed ban would not apply to any firearms already in existence. Weapons that were manufactured before the effective date of the ban could still be legally bought, sold, and owned. This grandfather clause is similar to a clause contained in President Ronald Reagan\u2019s 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act, which banned the manufacture of new automatic weapons for private use after May 1986.<\/p>\n<p>High-capacity magazines\u2014defined in the bill as magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition\u2014would be removed from circulation, but current owners would be allowed to keep the magazines already in their possession.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would also require that high-capacity magazines and prohibited weapons manufactured for law enforcement purposes display the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives on July 29 passed legislation that would ban so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d and high-capacity magazines. The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and dubbed the \u201cAssault Weapons Ban Act,\u201d passed in a mostly party-line\u00a0217\u2013213 vote. Though the definition of \u201cassault weapon\u201d has long been contested, the bill defines such weapons as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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-1579815","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\/1579815","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579815\/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=1579815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}