Pelosi says House will vote on gun package next week
by Mychael Schnell - 06/02/22 5:28 PM ET
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday announced the House will vote on a sweeping gun package next week, less than a month after two mass shootings that killed more than 30 people in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas.
The package, which the House Judiciary Committee marked up on Thursday, would raise the age requirement for purchasing semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21 years old, prohibit civilian use of high-capacity magazines and bump stocks and mandate that purchases of so-called ghost guns are subject to background check requirements.
Additionally, the package includes measures that would bolster firearm storage requirements and would disallow straw purchasing of guns, which is when someone who is unable to pass a background check buys a firearm through a proxy buyer.
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