To the frustration of many Democrats, the year-end agenda doesn’t include legislation to ban semiautomatic firearms due to firm Republican opposition.
The House passed legislation in July that would ban assault weapons for the first time since 2004, but it failed to pass in the Senate. Republicans dismiss the bill as an attack on Second Amendment rights.
In the weeks after the attack in Texas and a grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York, Congress made its most far-reaching response in decades to the nation’s run of brutal mass shootings by passing a package of bills that would toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers and keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders, among other things.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat and the committee’s chair, read the names of the five killed in the Club Q shooting into the record Wednesday, as U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet did in late November.
Few lawmakers were in attendance for the Club Q testimony. One member who was there was the committee’s ranking Republican, U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky. Comer —— offered his thoughts and prayers to the Coloradans. But he said Democrats were making political hay out of the tragedy and accused them of enacting soft-of-crime policies that contributed to violence nationwide.
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