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The House Republican who represents Uvalde, Texas, and broke with his party to vote for a gun safety bill after the school shooting there will face a runoff election in May against a popular gun ...
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said on Wednesday that he believes lawmakers have gone “about as far as we’re going to” on gun control legislation following a shooting at a Nashville elementary ...
The 2016 Republican Party platform, which condemned Democrats for proposing laws that would "eviscerate the Second Amendment," devoted three paragraphs to gun rights.The 2020 platform did not ...
U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey. [86] Republicans generally support gun ownership rights and oppose laws regulating guns and other related topic areas such as bump stocks and large-capacity magazines. [87]
A bipartisan gun reform bill has cleared a major hurdle in the Senate. It puts Congress one step closer to enacting new firearm legislation for the first time in nearly 30 years. Sean Sullivan ...
The bill was passed by the House on June 24 by a vote of 234–193, with 14 Republicans voting in favor alongside all 220 Democrats. [13] The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25, 2022. [14] It was the first major federal gun legislation to be passed since the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. [13]
Michael Bloomberg's gun-control super PAC, Independence USA, spent $8.3 million in 2012 [89] [90] and $6.3 million in 2013. [91] Americans for Responsible Solutions, another gun-control super PAC started by retired Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, raised $12 million in 2013, [92] and planned to raise $16 to $20 million by the 2014 elections. [93]
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told colleagues on the Senate floor Wednesday that he will not immediately bring gun control measures to the floor in the wake of two mass shootings ...