GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Tuesday that 'there are not enough votes in the Senate for an assault weapons ban.'
, 10 Republican senators joined every Senate Democrat and the Democratic-led House in voting to pass gun control legislation that enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21 years of age and closed the so-called"boyfriend loophole" to prevent convicted domestic abusers from purchasing a firearm for five years. Mr. Biden quickly signed the bill into law. , like the 1994 law that he helped pass as a senator.
Feinstein's current bill faces the same obstacle, since Democrats currently have only 51 seats in the Senate. Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, one of the 10 Republicans who worked with Democrats to pass the bipartisan gun legislation last summer, said Tuesday that"there are not enough votes in the Senate for an assault weapons ban." And there aren't enough votes in the House either, now that Republicans are in the majority.
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