Democrats representing California in Congress are promising to push for new gun control measures in the aftermath of the horrific slayings at a Connecticut elementary school last week, but the state’s Republicans representatives were mostly silent amid the renewed debate over firearms legislation.Josh Richman and Andrew Edwards in the Daily News,
An exclusive survey of all 53 California House members and members-elect, by the Los Angeles News Group and Bay Area News Group, found all 32 of the 38 Democrats who responded to the survey support re-enacting some version of the federal assault weapons ban that existed from 1994 to 2004.
Many would consider even more stringent gun controls and said some popular firearms, such as the .223-caliber AR-15, are “weapons of war” that are unfit for civilian use.
