After winning control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the Democrats are now planning to push for the most aggressive changes to gun legislation in decades.
The Democratic Party is aiming to shake up current laws with the biggest changes to current regulations in the last 25 years.
Dems are preparing for the big push ahead of the new term, which begins January, but Republicans are unlikely to make it easy for them.
A fresh wave of gun-grabbing politicians will enter the House next year after the Democratic party took it back in Tuesday's elections but the GOP still controls the Senate which passes federal laws, and they will most likely work hard to defend the Constitution.
Lucy McBath's son Jordan Davis, 17, was shot killed in 2012 for playing music too loud However, with the Thousand Oaks, California mass shooting where 12 people died just the day after the midterms, politicians have suggested they'll be aggressively pursuing action to enforce tougher gun control, according to the Daily Mail.
"This new majority is not going to be afraid of our shadow," California Democrat, Mike Thompson, told the Wall Street Journal."We know that we've been elected to do a job, and we're going to do it." As the chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, the man who represents Napa County and parts of other counties in Napa Valley, he's keen to make universal background checks mandatory when the new Congress is in progress.The desperation for the Democrats to regain control of the House was reflected in the funding...
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