Post by Logan on Jun 30, 2016 20:36:36 GMT -6
Gabbard among bipartisan group introducing gun control legislation
KAILUA-KONA — One day after 170 Democrats ended their sit-in on the House floor over a lack of movement on gun control, a bipartisan group of representatives that included Tulsi Gabbard sprang into legislative action.
Gabbard, D-Hawaii, joined eight other House members Friday, including four Republicans, in the introduction of legislation aimed at restricting the sale of firearms to individuals placed on the No-Fly List and Selectee List, subsets of the broader Terrorism Screening Database.
The legislation, HR 5576, is the House-companion to the Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act being led in the Senate by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
“In the three and a half years I’ve served in Congress, the Republicans have not once allowed members to vote on any gun control legislation,” Gabbard said of House Republicans in a statement emailed to West Hawaii Today last week. “It is outrageous in this democracy, with a representative form of government, that we are not even allowed to vote on sensible gun control legislation that is supported by the vast majority of the American people.”
Read more: www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/gabbard-among-bipartisan-group-introducing-gun-control-legislation
KAILUA-KONA — One day after 170 Democrats ended their sit-in on the House floor over a lack of movement on gun control, a bipartisan group of representatives that included Tulsi Gabbard sprang into legislative action.
Gabbard, D-Hawaii, joined eight other House members Friday, including four Republicans, in the introduction of legislation aimed at restricting the sale of firearms to individuals placed on the No-Fly List and Selectee List, subsets of the broader Terrorism Screening Database.
The legislation, HR 5576, is the House-companion to the Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act being led in the Senate by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
“In the three and a half years I’ve served in Congress, the Republicans have not once allowed members to vote on any gun control legislation,” Gabbard said of House Republicans in a statement emailed to West Hawaii Today last week. “It is outrageous in this democracy, with a representative form of government, that we are not even allowed to vote on sensible gun control legislation that is supported by the vast majority of the American people.”
Read more: www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/gabbard-among-bipartisan-group-introducing-gun-control-legislation