She also used the opportunity to call for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that expired 12 years ago.
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Authorities say Omar Mateen opened fire inside the club early Sunday morning with a handgun and a semi-automatic AR 15, killing 49 people and wounding more than 50 others. “We have to work hard as a nation, to reconsider our gun laws that allow such massacres to take place”, Iman Muhammad Musri, an Islam leader told a rally to commemorate the victims in the mass shooting in Orlando Monday.
The gun used in Sunday’s massacre is reported to have been a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, which is an AR-style gun, but not an AR-15 as many have reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama called the latest slaughter a “sobering reminder” that an attack on any American is an attack “on all of us”.
“Lastly, here at home, if we really want to help law enforcement protect Americans from homegrown extremists, the kind of tragedies that occurred at San Bernardino and that now have occurred in Orlando, there is a meaningful way to do that”, said Obama.
Taylor went on to explain that a lot of the confusion stems from the language within the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. “Those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense”. Gallego said a bill he is pushing for would end that.
“We’ve got to do everything we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them”. To say the United States has a gun problem would be a bit of an understatement. “We have to defeat them on the ground so we don’t have to fight them here”.
Part of the solution, as presented by the president, is to move forward with proposals to restrict gun sales to those on terror watch lists.
After a almost 15 hour filibuster by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, gun owners in his home state reacted to his call for a vote on several gun measures, which Republican lawmakers have agreed to take up.
‘And we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I can not prohibit those people from buying a gun.
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There have been 135 mass shootings in the U.S. in the first 164 days of 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive, yet the NRA does not believe there has been an increase in gun violence.
