[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION

  (Mr. AUCHINCLOSS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. AUCHINCLOSS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the 
commonsense gun safety legislation my colleagues and I have introduced 
this week. The horrific shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde are a painful 
reminder that action to stop gun violence is long overdue and that 
Republicans' decades of stonewalling is an intentional decision to 
allow Americans, including children, to continue to be slaughtered.
  In particular, the GOP and its gun policy puppet master, the NRA, is 
obsessed with assault weapons. As a marine, I ate, trained, patrolled, 
and slept with an assault weapon for 4 years. These are weapons of war 
designed to kill humans. There is no constitutional defense for 
civilian ownership of assault weapons even under the District of 
Columbia v. Heller interpretation of the Second Amendment, and there is 
certainly no rational explanation for why a mentally disturbed young 
man should be able to purchase a weapon of war along with high-capacity 
magazines with no questions asked.
  The GOP needs to stand up to the NRA and its dangerous and juvenile 
obsession with assault weapons. Otherwise, this slaughter will 
continue.

                          ____________________