{"id":1580576,"date":"2022-07-30T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580576"},"modified":"2022-07-30T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:23:44","slug":"gun-grab-house-passes-bill-banning-certain-semi-automatic-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-grab-house-passes-bill-banning-certain-semi-automatic-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gun Grab\u2019: House Passes Bill Banning Certain Semi-Automatic Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgun-grab-house-passes-bill-banning-certain-semi-automatic-guns%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=1580576&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.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-house-of-representatives\">House of Representatives<\/a> voted largely along partisan lines Friday to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gun-control\">ban<\/a> on certain semi-automatic firearms, though the bill is not expected to make it through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1808\/text\">bill<\/a>, entitled the \u201cAssault Weapons Ban of 2022,\u201d was passed by a vote of 217-213 and is intended to \u201cto ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited.\u201d The bill would reinstate the assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004 and prohibit the sale or manufacture of certain rifles (including AR-15s), shotguns and pistols based on the features that they have<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gun-violence-politics-shootings-congress-fd91c092aef91a992ee959399ba6f222\">including<\/a> Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Ron Kind (D-WI), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) voted against the bill, while Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY) voted in favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, House Democrats acted by unifying to pass an assault weapons ban to keep weapons of war off our streets, save lives in this country, and reduce crime in our communities,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/07\/29\/statement-from-president-biden-on-house-passage-of-assault-weapons-ban\/\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cThe majority of the American people agree with this common sense action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate since it would require the support of 10 Republican senators to get past the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Many House Republicans called the bill an attempt to crack down on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/second-amendment\">Second Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time in American history, I believe, that a chamber of the Congress will pass a bill openly defying the Supreme Court\u2019s explicit declaration of the rights of the American people,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanBishop\">said<\/a> Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) on the House floor, pointing to Supreme Court rulings such as <em>D.C. v. Heller,<\/em> which held that American citizens had the right to own firearms under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that, if signed into law, the legislation would ban millions of guns that Americans already own, while Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) pointed to the border crisis as one reason why Americans need to stay armed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be talking about disarming the American people, when it is my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that are leaving the American people exposed to dangerous cartels and dangerous narcotics flying to our communities, and dangerous criminal gang members, and criminals that are coming in and harming the American people, including people that are affiliated with terrorist countries and organizations,\u201d the Texas Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-roys-remarks-hr-1808\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) called the legislation a \u201cgun grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support\">signed<\/a> the most expansive gun control legislation in decades following support from Republicans in the House and the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives voted largely along partisan lines Friday to pass a ban on certain semi-automatic firearms, though the bill is not expected to make it through the Senate.\u00a0 The bill, entitled the \u201cAssault Weapons Ban of 2022,\u201d was passed by a vote of 217-213 and is intended to \u201cto ensure that the right &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1580600,"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-1580576","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\/1580576","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1580600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}