Biden calls for more gun control before GOP takes House, says 'sick' to allow semi-automatic weapon sales - Fox News

President Biden said connected Thursday that helium would propulsion Congress to enact caller weapon power laws earlier Republicans took power of the U.S. House of Representatives successful January. 

Biden told reporters during a property lawsuit successful Nantucket, Massachusetts that the caller shooting astatine an LGBT nightclub successful Colorado had reinforced the request to walk an battle weapons ban. 

"The thought we inactive let semi-automatic weapons to beryllium purchased is sick," said Biden. "It has nary socially redeeming value… Not a azygous solitary rationale for it but nett for the weapon manufacturers."

Semi-automatic guns, including handguns and rifles, occurrence 1 slug for each propulsion of the trigger.

Biden said helium would propulsion national lawmakers to enact a caller battle weapons prohibition earlier January erstwhile the adjacent Congress took bureau and Republicans gained power of the House.

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President Biden talks with reporters during a sojourn connected Thanksgiving Day to the Nantucket Fire Department successful Nantucket, Massachusetts, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

"I'm going to try," said the president. "I’m going to effort to get escaped of battle weapons." 

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Biden said helium would prosecute lawmakers to marque a broader appraisal of whether occurrence is possible. At the moment, the likelihood look long. 

President Biden said the caller shooting astatine an LGBT nightclub successful Colorado had strengthened his resoluteness to walk an battle weapons ban.  (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Democrats power the House by a constrictive borderline until January. The Senate, meanwhile, is divided 50-50 betwixt some parties. For a sweeping weapon power bundle to pass, including a prohibition connected battle weapons, astatine slightest 10 GOP supporters volition beryllium needed to interruption the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold. 

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Earlier this year, Biden's telephone for an battle weapons prohibition fell level with Republicans, adjacent arsenic astir 2 twelve GOP senators bucked the weapon lobby to beforehand a bipartisan weapon bill. 

The governmental situation is improbable to get easier successful January. While Democrats mislaid power of the House to Republicans, the enactment kept constrictive power of the Senate — albeit obscurity adjacent capable to interruption an expected filibuster without GOP support.