There’s a bill in the House to make the AR-15 the national gun of the United States.
The bill has several co-sponsors already and now George Santos is one of them.
Here’s more via Fox News:
Freshman U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., is co-sponsoring a bill that would make the AR-15 the National Gun of the United States.
The legislation, H.B. 1095, known as the AR-15 National Gun Act, was sponsored by Alabama Republican Barry Moore, FOX New York reported. Georgia Republican Andrew Clyde and Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert have also signed on as co-sponsors.
“The anti-Second Amendment group won’t stop until they take away all your firearms,” Moore said Tuesday at a gun shop in Troy, Alabama to announce the bill. “One rule to remember: any government that would take away one right would take away them all.”
Text of the bill was not available Thursday and was not posted on the Congressional website.
Santos, whose embattled electoral victory has dominated his first weeks in Congress, has not publicly said anything about the legislation. However, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized him in a statement for attaching his name to the bill.
“This weapon of war has been used in mass shootings across the United States – from my hometown of Buffalo, where the shooter used a modified AR-15 to murder ten people in a despicable act of white supremacist terrorism, to Parkland, Florida, where the shooter killed seventeen innocent people with an AR-15-style weapon,” she said.
Santos previously wore an AR-15 lapel pin on Capitol Hill. In an interview with the news outlet last week, he said, “From the moment we come back from being in recess I’m going to be introducing some original bills and I think the district is going to appreciate them because they are really district-focused bills.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Santos’ office.
I love it. I never would have thought of the idea but I like the pushback on the notion that the AR-15 is any different from any other semi-automatic rifle that shoots bottleneck ammo.
Obviously the bill isn’t going to go anywhere given the political make up of the Senate and the White House, but it’s nice to see someone standing up for the AR-15.
Especially when Democrats keep trying to take it away.