Democratic leaders are seeking to advance a number of gun control bills in the House, hoping to force vulnerable Republicans to take a side on the matter ahead of a crucial election cycle in 2024.
House Democrats filed three separate discharge petitions on Tuesday to advance legislation seeking tighter gun restrictions and a ban on assault-style weapons, using a rare mechanism that could trigger a floor vote even without the support of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy . Party leaders are seeking to use that vote to put Republicans in an uncomfortable position, hoping to paint their GOP counterparts as unserious on the matter of guns.
One discharge petition being brought by Rep. Lucy McBath aims to advance a bill originally introduced by former Rep. David Cicilline earlier this year that would enact a national assault-style weapons ban. Cicilline retired from Congress at the end of May. All three pieces of legislation passed the House in the last Congress but failed to advance through the evenly split Senate.
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