A US House committee is planning to vote next week for the first time in nearly 20 years on a bill to ban assault weapons, Democratic committee chairman Jerrold Nadler said, AFP reported. Senseless killings are taking place in our country. one after the other, and each time one fact remained the same: the weapon of choice for mass murder is a powerful offensive weapon.

And explained in a statement that “a bill to ban the sale, import, manufacture or transfer of certain types of semi-automatic weapons will be considered by the committee on Wednesday”, noting that if the committee approves the bill “to ban offensive weapons for 2021”, it will be submitted to the vote in the House of Representatives, in which the Democrats have a majority.

However, it will likely fail in the Senate, where Democrats have 50 seats in the 100-member House, and it will take 10 Republican votes to get it to a vote.