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Republicans Delay Silencer Vote In Wake Of Las Vegas
Topic Started: Oct 3 2017, 03:31 PM (4 Views)
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(The Guardian) Republicans delay silencer bill
Leaders of the House of Representatives have again delayed their plan to loosen regulations on gun silencers in the wake of the Las Vegas rampage. “We are all reeling from this horror in Las Vegas,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Tuesday. “This is just awful.”

Lawmakers have indefinitely shelved the bill, supported by the National Rifle Association and a House committee last month, Ryan said. “I don’t know when it will be scheduled,” he said. House Republicans have also proposed a bill to let people with concealed-carry permits to take their guns across state lines.

Earlier this year they delayed a vote on the silencer bill after a gunman attacked Republican lawmakers practicing baseball.

Democratic leaders in the House have pushed for new gun rules in the wake of the shooting, though Republicans, who have stymied such efforts for years, control both chambers of Congress.

The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, and senators Richard Durbin and Chris Murphy have urged for background checks on all gun purchases.

“Gun violence is a public health crisis,” Durbin said on Tuesday, invoking the mass shootings in Chicago, Oregon, and elsewhere in the last few years. “We failed to respond in time for those victims and their families. But if we work together, we can stop shootings in the future.”

Pelosi asked Ryan to create a committee to research gun violence and recommend prevention solutions. But the effort appears largely symbolic: a bipartisan effort to expand background checks failed in the Senate in 2013, after the massacre of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut.

On Tuesday, senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, echoed the White House in saying that discussion of new gun rules would be “premature”.
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