House Planning A Vote For Renewed Gun Control Measures Thursday

The House Judiciary Committee is planning a vote on Thursday on a new wide-ranging package of gun control measures after multiple mass shootings have impacted cities across the nation.

The package of bills is known as the “Protecting our Kids” and was first reported by Punchbowl News.

The package would amend the legal age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 years of age. The measures would also establish new federal offenses for gun trafficking and for selling large-capacity magazines. The measures would also allow local governments to compensate individuals who surrender high-capacity magazines through a buyback program.

The new measures would additionally establish a new tax credit for the sale of safe storage devices. Also, they will establish new criminal penalties for breaking the proposed requirements on the storage of firearms in residential properties.