WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to allow confiscation of guns from individuals deemed an “extreme risk,” the morning after agreeing to ban teens from buying semi-automatic weapons like the one used by the 18-year-old who killed 21 people at a Uvalde elementary school.
Republicans asserted that the red flag bill, like the broader measure raising the age to buy AR-15s and similar weapons, violates the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
“We are paying for this deadly gun culture with the lives of American people,” argued the bill’s author, Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., adding that the red flag law “would empower loved ones and law enforcement to help prevent mass shootings, before they happen.”
