• US House of Representatives approved a measure banning assault weapons for the first time in decades.
• Only two Republicans joined Democrats to support the assault weapons prohibition in the House, despite the terrible plague of mass shootings.
• At May, a white supremacist killed 10 blacks in a Buffalo grocery.

US House of Representatives approved a measure banning assault weapons for the first time in decades. The Democratic-majority House passed the bill 217 to 213, and it will certainly fail in the Senate.

Only two Republicans joined Democrats to support the assault weapons prohibition in the House, despite the terrible plague of mass shootings.

In the 100-member Senate, Democrats have 50 members and need 10 Republican votes to examine a bill.

Congress established a 10-year ban on assault guns and some high-capacity magazines in 1994, but politicians allowed it expire in 2004.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the measure a “crucial step” in the battle against gun violence.

It would outlaw the sale, import, manufacture, and transfer of semi-automatic firearms used in recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Highland Park, Illinois.

At May, a white supremacist killed 10 blacks in a Buffalo grocery.

In the same month, an 18-year-old murdered 19 pupils and 2 teachers in Uvalde and 7 people during a July 4 procession in Highland Park.

After the Uvalde tragedy, President Biden urged Congress to prohibit assault guns or increase the purchase age to 21.

Republican legislators oppose the ban because they believe it violates the freedom to carry guns.

Biden added, “40,000 Americans die from gunshot wounds annually, and weapons are the biggest killer of U.S. children.”

“We know an assault weapons prohibition will save lives,” he stated.

In a study issued this week, a House committee stated US gunmakers made $1 billion selling AR-15-style semiautomatics.

Representative Carolyn Maloney stated, “The gun industry has filled our communities, schools, churches, and synagogues with lethal weapons and profited wealthy doing it.”

“They choose their profit line before the lives of their fellow Americans,” the New York legislator stated.

Republican legislators fought Democrats.

Kentucky Rep. James Comer: “Gun makers don’t produce violent crime.” Criminals commit violence.

“We’ll continue to preserve the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” Comer added.

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