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U.S. House Democrats said Friday they won't support legislation Speaker Paul Ryan plans to bring to a vote next week that seeks to prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms. Following their dramatic 25-hour House chamber sit-in last week to demand votes on gun bills, Democrats contend the Republican proposal doesn't provide strong enough action and warn that renewed protests are possible after the House reconvenes Tuesday.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday that will require people to turn in high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales, as California Democrats seek to strengthen gun laws that are already among the strictest in the nation. Brown vetoed five other bills, including a requirement to report lost or stolen weapons to authorities and a limit of one gun purchase per person per month.
U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly says Congress should pass gun control legislation preventing felons, people with mental illness and those on the government no-fly list from purchasing firearms. The Indiana Democrat has been a strong supporter of gun rights while in Congress and has previously been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chastised Republican lawmakers on Sunday for a "paralyzed" Congress, saying they've fueled populist anger by refusing to "do their job." Clinton ticked off a list of items that GOP congressional leaders have refused to schedule for a vote.
Patrick Griffin, his chief congressional affairs lobbyist, recalls the lead up to the bill's passage in 1994-and the steep political price that followed. For those who question whether anything will ever be done to curb the use of military grade weaponry for mass shootings in the United States, history provides some good news-and some bad.
For more than a year after the swearing-in of the 111th Congress in 2009, Democrats held strong majorities in both houses of Congress. They passed the stimulus, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law and Obamacare, among other major pieces of legislation.
A group of gun violence groups and Loudoun County residents protested outside Congresswoman Barbara Comstock's district office in Sterling Friday, urging her to take a stronger stance on preventing gun violence.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets people before addressing the Long Island Association at their office in Melville, Friday, June 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets people before addressing the Long Island Association at their office in Melville, Friday, June 24, 2016.
House Democrats wrested control of the national spotlight Wednesday, leading a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, chanting over Speaker Paul Ryan, all for gun control -- one of the most intractable issue in Congress. And even with the sit-in's end Thursday afternoon -- without action on gun control -- the fight over the issue isn't over, Democrats say.
I have never fired a gun, nor do I own one, and I don't intend to ever do either. Guns never fascinated me as a super hero-loving kid, and they certainly don't interest me now.
In particular, leaders told rank-and-file lawmakers that they are barred from using electronic devices to display audio or video recordings of House proceedings or take pictures on the House floor. Democrats openly flaunted those rules throughout a sit-in that lasted until early Thursday.
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Conner Eldridge criticized Republican Sen. John Boozman Wednesday for opposing an effort to prevent terrorists from buying guns, saying an alternative measure backed by the Arkansas lawmaker doesn't go far enough. Speaking to the Political Animals Club, Eldridge said he supports a proposal by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would let the federal government block many gun sales to known or suspected terrorists.
When you consider the Oklahoma office worker whose head was hacked off with a knife, the New York cops attacked with an axe , and the Paris assault with a knife, it begins to dawn on one that assault is a behavior and not a weapon. Ever since Cain slew Able, it has been possible to kill people without using an AR15.
Ohio's Republican U.S. senator is interested in a compromise gun control measure being offered in the aftermath of defeats this week of other legislation. Rob Portman says he hasn't yet seen the final language in Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins' bill to block guns from suspected terrorists.
On May 24, the House Appropriations Committee took up a proposal "to deny transfers of firearms to persons known or suspected to be engaged in conduct related to terrorism." In a party-line vote, Republicans defeated the plan 29 to 17. Nineteen days later, a man whom the FBI had investigated as a possible terrorist went into an Orlando nightclub and, claiming solidarity with the Islamic State, shot 49 people to death with weapons he bought legally.
But her mischievous 3-year-old was practicing a lockdown drill - hiding from a potential attacker, hoping to avoid the type of tragedy that she likely isn't able to fully comprehend at such a young age. Many of those commenting on her Facebook post with the image - especially those outside the United States - expressed surprise at the fact that such a young child has to practice this sort of drill.
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members Tom Massie , left, and Ron DeSantis talk on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 15 during a committee hearing. The mayor of the District of Columbia argued last week that assault rifles are "only meant to devastate humans," and that following the massacre in Orlando, Congress must "finally do something" about guns.
The Senate as expected on Monday rejected four partisan gun measures offered in the wake of the Orlando massacre, including proposals to keep guns out of the hands of people on terror watch lists. Two Republican proposals would have increased funding for the national background check system and created a judicial review process to keep a person on a terror watch list from buying a gun; two Democratic measures would have expanded background checks to private gun sales and allowed the Justice Department to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.