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House panel swiftly takes up gun bill after mass shootings

By KEVIN FREKING legislation that would raise
WASHINGTON (AP) — The the age limit for purchasing
House is swiftly working to semi-automatic rifles from
put its stamp on gun legis- 18 to 21. The bill also would
lation in response to mass make it a federal offense
shootings in Texas and New to import, manufacture
York by 18-year-old assail- or possess large-capacity
ants who used semi-auto- magazines and would cre-
matic rifles to kill 31 people, ate a grant program to buy
including 19 children. back such magazines.
Debate on the legislation It also builds on the admin-
came as the the White istration’s executive ac-
House announced that tion banning fast-action
President Joe Biden would “bump-stock” devices
give a prime-time speech and “ghost guns” that are
about the shootings and his assembled without serial
plans to press Congress "to numbers.
pass commonsense laws to The Democratic legislation,
combat the epidemic of called the Protecting Our
gun violence that is taking Kids Act, was quickly add-
lives every day." ed to the legislative dock-
Partisan positions were et after last week’s school Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks in support of Democratic gun control measures, called
the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol
clear at a Judiciary Com- shooting in Uvalde, Texas. in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022.
mittee hearing Thursday on Continued on next page Associated Press