{"id":1907164,"date":"2023-03-30T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907164"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:30:11","slug":"mayorkas-wants-to-ban-assault-weapons-but-cant-tell-us-what-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-wants-to-ban-assault-weapons-but-cant-tell-us-what-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Wants to Ban \u201cAssault Weapons\u201d,  But Can\u2019t Tell Us What They Are"},"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\">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%2Fmayorkas-wants-to-ban-assault-weapons-but-cant-tell-us-what-they-are%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=1907164&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--><section>The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has had a trying week. Not only was he heavily criticised by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the border crisis, but Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) also quizzed him on the definition of an \u201cassault weapon\u201d. Despite Mayorkas\u2019s calls for a ban on such weapons, he was unable to provide a clear definition of what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Secretary, yesterday you testified in judiciary that you support an assault weapon ban and we didn\u2019t have much time to talk about that. Tell me your definition \u2014 once more \u2014 of an assault weapon,\u201d Sen. Kennedy asked.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think that someone who wants to ban a particular type of weapon would have a clear idea of what that type is, but Mayorkas proved otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not an expert, with respect to the definition of the assault bans, and so I defer to\u2014\u201d Mayorkas began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are the Secretary of Homeland Security,\u201d Sen. Kennedy interjected, indicating that he should have a better understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I was about to say, I defer to the experts. I defer to, for example, the definition of an assault weapon that was codified in the prior iteration of the legislation that was passed and that was in operation when I served as an assistant United States attorney and the United States Attorney in the Central District,\u201d Mayorkas replied.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he supported the prior definition, Mayorkas replied that he deferred \u201cto the experts with respect to the definition,\u201d but said that he considered \u201cmilitary-style weapons\u201d to be of great concern.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kennedy then pressed him for an explanation of what he meant by \u201cmilitary-style weapon\u201d, but Mayorkas did not provide a clear answer. Instead, he referred to the recent Nashville school shooting and called for legislative action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say this: when we see the tragedy in Nashville, and it is not the first such tragedy that we see, when I engage with my international counterparts,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cAnd they ask me, almost invariably first, what is going on with all the mass killings in the United States? And why are these assault weapons disseminated so broadly, I say that we need legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kennedy summarised the interaction by stating, \u201cSo you support an assault weapon ban, but you don\u2019t have a definition. Is that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his evasive answers, Mayorkas continued to call for a ban on \u201cassault weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not having a good week. Earlier this week, he got raked over the coals by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the border crisis. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) also got a turn with Mayorkas and, as he\u2019s been known to do, asked the secretary a few simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1907165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayorkas Wants to Ban \u201cAssault Weapons\u201d,  But Can\u2019t Tell Us What They Are","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4767,7008,3680,5058,7788],"class_list":["post-1907164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-assault","tag-ban","tag-cant","tag-mayorkas","tag-weapons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayorkas Wants to Ban \u201cAssault Weapons\u201d,  But Can\u2019t Tell Us What They Are","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907164","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=1907164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}