House Dems Prepare For Votes On Sweeping Gun And Magazine Ban

By Cam Edwards

House Democrats are planning on passing several more gun control bills in the coming weeks, beginning with an early return to Washington D.C. by the House Judiciary Committee in order to hear (and almost certainly approve) three separate gun control bills and plans for a separate vote on a fourth bill later in September.

Rep. Jerry Nadler made it clear that the intent is to pass the bills quickly, and let the Democrat-controlled chamber rush the legislation over to the U.S. Senate in short order, where they would join a “universal background check” bill already passed by the House earlier this year.

On Sept. 4, the panel intends to approve measures to ban high-capacity magazines, to incentivize states to establish a process to prevent people deemed “a risk to themselves or others” from obtaining a firearm, and to prohibit people convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from possessing guns.

We’ve already talked extensively about “Red Flag” laws here, and I’ll have a separate post this weekend about the bills dealing with bans on gun possession for those subjected to an order of protection and those convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime. So let’s focus on the gun and magazine bans that’ll …Read the Rest

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