The Epoch Times Several Republican lawmakers expressed alarm about President Joe Biden’s Thursday speech encouraging a new “assault weapons” ban and a ban on “high-capacity” magazines, with some saying that a slate of recent Democrat proposals would infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
During the speech, Biden made reference to recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The president then said that “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines,” meaning those that hold more than 10 rounds, should be banned. He did not specify what he meant by “assault weapons,” a term that conservatives and GOP lawmakers have found contentious and misleading.
“If we can’t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21,” he then said. Meanwhile, the United States needs to “strengthen background checks; enact safe storage and red flag laws; repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence,” he said…
