Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fl.) showed off his guns at Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing in an attempt to show what guns could be banned under Democrats’ package of gun control legislation called the “Protecting Our Kids Act.”
“Right here in front of me, I have a Sig Sauer P226,” he said, holding up the gun. “It comes with a 21-round magazine. This gun would be banned.”
Steube then held up several other guns including one he claims he uses “every single day” to protect his family, and insist that it too would be banned.
His gun show prompted Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to say, “I hope the gun is not loaded.”
“I’m at my house. I can do whatever I want with my guns,” Steube shot back.
The House Judiciary Committee held a markup on a package of gun control legislation called the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” after recent mass shootings.
The ‘Protecting Our Kids Act, is a series of eight gun-related measures aimed at preventing gun violence.
It includes a provision to raise the legal age to buy certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years old, and establish new federal offenses for gun trafficking and for selling large-capacity magazines, according to CNN.
The bill would also create a tax incentive for retail sales of safe storage devices and criminal penalties for breaking new requirements regulating firearm storage on residential premises. The measure would also take steps to strengthen existing federal regulations on bump stocks and ghost guns.
