For the first time a Republican congressperson has stepped forward to back a bill seeking to ban assault weapons.
New York Representative Pete King made a very blunt statement to the New York Daily News saying that “they are weapons of mass slaughter.”
His status as a co-sponsor of HR 1296, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, became public Monday.
Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/457993-new-york-republican-backs-assault-weapons-ban
