House votes to ban semi-automatic weapons after 18-year lapse; likely to stall in Senate

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the bill forward Friday, but the legislation is likely to go nowhere in the Senate.

Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed in many mass shootings.

Congress allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 to expire a decade later, unable to muster the political support to counter the powerful gun lobby.Copyright © 2022 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

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