LIVE: House Committee on the Judiciary; Markup Bill for Firearms with Stabilizing Braces
Jackson-Lee calling the hearing on violent crime in New York earlier this week, a 'sham'.
Jackson-Lee: The people of the United States have said they wanted a ban on assault weapons.
Massie: These are felons [owners of stabilizing brace] that have been created through regulation. By an agency who for years, a decade, have said this is legal.
Hank Johnson: I hear and see tears about the number of felons who are allegedly going to be created if this legislation does not pass. But I don't hear or see a single tear for any of the children who lose their lives annually to gun violence in this country.
Gaetz: When [democrats] really come for your rights, and when they really wanna erode the Constitution, they don't do it with folks who can be sent home by the voters. They do it with unelected bureaucrats with green eye shade somewhere in some windowless cubicle, in the bowels of the ATF.
Schiff: I've heard several arguments by my colleagues, about, essentially why we should make it easier to kill children.
Hageman: I want to correct the record as to the leading cause of death of children [being guns]. That is a statistic that has been thrown around rather aggressively this evening. It is not true, and in fact, that is not what the CDC data shows. What people are relying upon is an inaccurate study that does not relate specifically to minors, but actually included eighteen and nineteen year old adults.
[this false claim is repeated almost daily by Jean-Pierre, Biden, and other democrats]
Swalwell: If anyone wants to know what's the priority of their member of congress, on the other side of the aisle, for the republican party, at this early hour, it's to better arm the killers of our children. That's the priority.
Massie: We should have access to know which prescription drugs these killers were on at the time they committed the crime.
Ivey: I was here when a guy walked into the police department here in Washington DC, and lit up the place. He killed police officers.
[a suspicious incident; two officers, two FBI agents were killed in 1994…I suspect they were targeted, possibly for what they were investigating]