President Biden praised the House’s passage of legislation to revive the ban on semi-automatic weapons on Friday, a step he said will “save lives in this country, and reduce crime in our communities.”
Mr. Biden vowed that he “will not stop fighting” until the evenly split Senate sends the bill to his desk.
“When guns are the number one killer of children in America, when more children die from guns than active-duty police and active-duty military combined, we have to act,” Mr. Biden said. “There can be no greater responsibility than to do all we can to ensure the safety of our families, our children, our homes, our communities, and our nation.