Three Senate sources told the Washington Free Beacon that the House's impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump has stalled efforts to pass new gun control laws.
A third Senate staffer said gun control was something that wouldn't be on the front burner at least "For a while" and that some staffers had already begun preparing for how to handle impeachment proceedings should they come.
Gun control activists and members of the media have applied immense public pressure to pass new gun control measures in the wake of mass shootings last month in Texas and Ohio.
While polling has shown support for some of the measures pursued by gun control advocates, that support has declined even in polls taken shortly after the shootings.
Calls by gun control groups and Democratic politicians alike to confiscate tens or even hundreds of millions of firearms from Americans have complicated efforts by the White House to find a workable gun package.
The impeachment inquiry may have ended any hope to find a gun bill that could pass in the near term.
Despite the dim prospects a new gun control package currently faces in the Senate, sources said the impasse is not necessarily permanent.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/impeachment-inquiry-stalls-gun-control-talks-senate-staffers-say/
A third Senate staffer said gun control was something that wouldn't be on the front burner at least "For a while" and that some staffers had already begun preparing for how to handle impeachment proceedings should they come.
Gun control activists and members of the media have applied immense public pressure to pass new gun control measures in the wake of mass shootings last month in Texas and Ohio.
While polling has shown support for some of the measures pursued by gun control advocates, that support has declined even in polls taken shortly after the shootings.
Calls by gun control groups and Democratic politicians alike to confiscate tens or even hundreds of millions of firearms from Americans have complicated efforts by the White House to find a workable gun package.
The impeachment inquiry may have ended any hope to find a gun bill that could pass in the near term.
Despite the dim prospects a new gun control package currently faces in the Senate, sources said the impasse is not necessarily permanent.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/impeachment-inquiry-stalls-gun-control-talks-senate-staffers-say/
No comments:
Post a Comment