House Takes Up Eight-Part Gun Reform Legislation After Uvlade Massacre
The House Judiciary Committee called for an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss an eight-part gun control package following a violent past few weeks with mass shootings leaving 10 dead in Buffalo, New York, and taking the lives of 21 more in Uvalde, Texas. Thursday’s session will serve as an opportunity for the Democratic-led committee to make final changes with the intention of sending it to the full House to vote on the “Protecting Our Kids Act” next week. The package seeks to raise the age for buying semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years old, make it unlawful to import, sell, manufa...