Congress is once again trying to take action on a host of gun safety measures. Biden wants Congress to finally act on it, including banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and repealing the immunity that protects gun manufacturers.
The "Protecting Our Children Act" will be voted on by the House. Nancy Pelosi has said that there will be a hearing on banning assault weapons. In the Senate, anti-gun-control Republicans are likely to prevent more aggressive action.
"Saving our children can and must be a unifying mission for our nation," Pelosi wrote. The survival of our children is more important than the survival of those in the Congress.
There were mass shootings last month that killed 10 mostly Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York supermarket and 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Five people were killed on the campus of a hospital in Oklahoma on Wednesday.
How much more carnage do we want to accept? In a speech from the White House, Biden criticized Republicans for blocking gun safety measures. We have to do something this time.
Background checks for gun sales have been approved by the House. Legislation has not been taken up by the Senate. The latest package of bills coming from the House also faces tough prospects in the Senate, but Democrats are pushing them in part to put their Republican colleagues on the record for opposing gun safety measures.
"For the children we've lost, for the children we can save, for the nation we love, let's hear the cry," Biden said. We should meet the moment. We need to finally do something.
Here is a look at the measures that are being considered.
The purchasing age for semi-automatic rifles will be raised from 18 to 21 next week. Both of the Uvalde and Buffalo shooters were 18 years old.
Biden told people not to tell him raising the age won't make a difference.
Access to high-capacity magazines would be limited under the bill. The recoil of a gun can be used to mimic fully automatic firing.
Purchases of ghost guns, or homemade guns that are assembled from parts, would be subject to existing firearm regulations and new federal offenses would be established for gun traffickers.
Penalties would be created for violating requirements for the residential storage of firearms.
The Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act would allow family members and law enforcement to seek a court order to temporarily remove firearms from people who pose a danger to themselves or others. It would encourage states to make their own laws. There are extreme risk protection orders in place in 19 states.
The legislation was proposed by McBath and Carbajal.
Lindsey Graham, a former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, introduced legislation in the past that sought to balance the Second Amendment rights of the individual with concerns from law enforcement and family members about those who may be experiencing a mental health crisis.
—Steny Hoyer (@LeaderHoyer) May 25, 2022
Legislation to create an "AMBER Alert-style notification" in the event of a mass shooting will be considered by the House.
She said that the bill would be brought to the floor in the weeks ahead.
"I've talked to my law enforcement at home in Michigan and they support this." They can respond to the scene and get people out of the area.
Legislation to ban military-style weapons that Congress banned in 1994 will soon be heard by the House. The ban expired in 2004.
The ban was proven to save lives and is supported by the American people. After the prohibition expired, gun massacres rose by 183%, but during the time of the ban, they fell by as much as 37%.
Red flag laws, background checks, school safety measures, and mental health resources are some of the measures being discussed by two groups of senators.
After the Uvalde shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy pleaded with his colleagues to do something.
In a Fox News op-ed, Murphy, a leading gun-control advocate since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, acknowledged that he will need to accept a smaller set of reforms than he would like.
"My desire is simple - to find a way for Republicans and Democrats to come together around a small but meaningful set of changes to our nation's gun laws, along with major investments in mental health, that will make it less likely that another Sandy Hook or Uvalde will happen again
McConnell has said he's willing to work with Democrats on gun safety legislation, but he hasn't said which bill he would support.
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