A U.S. House committee is attempting to approve an act that would raise the legal age for buying certain guns to 21 from 18, clamp down on trafficking of weapons and encourage their safe storage
A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Thursday will take up a bill aimed at toughening national gun laws following the Texas school shooting that killed 19 young children and two teachers, though the measure has little chance of passing the Senate.
Even if approved by the committee, Democrats face an uphill fight advancing it to President Joe Biden’s desk for enactment into law. Meanwhile, a small bipartisan group of senators were using the week-long Memorial Day recess to determine whether they can come up with a bill that enough Republicans would embrace.
It was unclear whether that would be broad enough for Democrats who have tougher background checks high on their agenda and many of whom want to ban rapid-fire assault type weapons.
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