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No Republican Sponsors For New Gun Safety Bill

Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Credit: Xinhua/Liu Jie

Democrats are ready to use their new majority in the House of Representatives to take action on gun safety legislation in order to make schools, theaters, halls of worship, and everywhere else a little bit safer.

But not a single Republican is willing to support legislation banning high-capacity magazines like those used in the deadly 2017 Las Vegas massacre that killed 58 people and injured hundreds.

On Tuesday, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) reintroduced the Keep Americans Safe Act, which would ban any magazine with more than 10 bullets. Access to these magazines makes shooters “dramatically more dangerous,” Deutch told CNN in a recent interview, because they can fire more shots without pausing to reload.

View the complete February 12 article by Dan Desai Martin originally posted on the American Independent website on the National Memo website here.

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