Forbes: September 22 D.C. March Will Urge Senate To Pass Assault Weapon Ban

Source: Forbes, Written by: Bruce Y. Lee

September 22 is not March Fourth. But that’s the day that the March Fourth group will be holding a march in Washington, DC. March Fourth describes itself as a nonprofit, non-partisan advocacy group “with a singular mission: to federally ban assault weapons.” So the September 22 March Fourth march will be a way to urge the U.S. Senate to pass the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2022” bill that was authored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) and got through the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 1808 on July 29. This bill would make it “unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon.” The emphasis here is on the word “would” because the bill would need to get at least 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to pass.

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