The House will vote Friday on a bill to ban assault-style weapons in response to a string of recent mass shootings this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Friday. The move comes after Democrats failed to secure the necessary votes to pass more broad public safety measures Friday. The negotiations on those bills are expected to continue into the summer.
The vote on the ban will mark the first effort by lawmakers to attempt to reinstate the federal ban, which was law from 1994 until 2004. But the proposal is unlikely to reach President Joe Biden’s desk.
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