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Thursday, June 02, 2022

Legislation is one thing, compliance is another

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the House will consider legislation to crack down on military-style "assault weapons" amid a wave of gun violence across the United States.

On Thursday, the Judiciary Committee will mark up legislation, packaged together as the Protecting Our Kids Act, that raises the age to purchase "weapons of war," restricts access to ghost guns, outlaws high-capacity gun magazines, and cracks down on gun trafficking, Pelosi said at a rally against gun violence in San Francisco on Wednesday. The House will then take up the bill sometime next week along with other gun-related legislation, Pelosi added, before the chamber holds a hearing on and a markup for an "assault weapons" ban.