A Democrat-led bill seeks to impose a sweeping firearms ban with exceptions that gun rights groups say are so fuzzy that the prohibition could prohibit nearly all semi-automatic handguns, in the latest push to curb Second Amendment rights.
The measure, dubbed the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE), which a gun rights group panned as “perhaps the most sweeping gun prohibition bill of the 21st Century,” was introduced on Nov. 29 by a number of Democrat U.S. senators, along with an independent—with no Republicans joining.
