Several Republican lawmakers expressed alarm about President Joe Biden’s Thursday speech encouraging a new “assault weapons” ban and a ban on “high-capacity” magazines, with some saying that a slate of recent Democrat proposals would infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
During the speech, Biden made reference to recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The president then said that “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines,” meaning those that hold more than 10 rounds, should be banned. He did not specify what he meant by “assault weapons,” a term that conservatives and GOP lawmakers have found contentious and misleading.
