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House passes semi-automatic gun ban after 18-year lapse

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A Stag Arms retro AR-15 style semi-automatic 5.56mm rifle is displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R.

Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. - America's powerful National Rifle Associa WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide.Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed as the weapon of choice among young men responsible for many of the most devastating mass shootings.

But Congress allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 on the manufacture and sales of the weapons to expire a decade later, unable to muster the political support to counter the powerful gun lobby and reinstate the weapons ban.Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the vote toward passage in the Democratic-run House, saying the earlier ban "saved lives."The House legislation is shunned by Republicans, who dismissed it as an election-year strategy by Democrats.

Almost all Republicans voted against the bill, which passed 217-213. It will likely stall in the 50-50 Senate. The bill comes at a time of intensifying concerns about gun violence and shootings -- the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.; massacre of school children in Uvalde, Texas; and the July Fourth shootings of revelers in Highland Park, Ill.Voters seem to be taking such election-year votes seriously as Congress splits along party lines and lawmakers are forced to go on the record with their views.

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