House votes to ban assault weapons in wake of mass shootings
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Although it stands little chance of passing the Senate, it's the first House vote on assault weapons since 1994.
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House passes assault-style weapons ban
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House votes to ban assault weapons in wake of mass shootings
By Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN The House will vote on a ban of assault-style weapons Friday, separating packages on gun control and policing laws that had been entwined, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday.
The House will vote Friday on a bill to ban assault-style weapons in response to a string of recent mass shootings this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Friday. The move comes after Democrats failed to secure the necessary votes to pass more broad public safety measures Friday. The…
Coming on the heels of a spate of mass shootings, the vote gave Democrats another opportunity to draw a sharp distinction with Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.
The House passed a bill on Friday that bans certain semi-automatic assault weapons. Voting to save lives shouldn't be partisan. But 208 Republicans just voted against reinstating the assault weap...
The vote by the Democratic-majority House was a direct response to recent mass shootings in the US. The bill has little chance of progressing in the Senate because of Republican opposition.
After a long day in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 (H.R. 1808) passed mainly on a party-line vote by a count of 217 for to 214 against the bill.
(EFE).- The Democrat-controlled lower house of the United States on Friday passed a bill to ban assault-style weapons in the country. However, the proposal is likely to stall in the Senate, where the Democrats have a narrow majority.
