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The Biden administration is yet again thumbing its nose at this committee.

I am proud to join with Ranking Member Davis and my good friend Mr. Steil on a bill that we are pushing forward.

I would encourage my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

In closing, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We are paying for these weapons of war on our streets with the blood of our children sitting in our classrooms.

You are trying to teach safety and actually helping young people.

Parents must teach your children how to handle firearms properly.

It is real easy to profile and just say, oh, you are a gun manufacturer, you are an awful person.

Let me be clear. Gun manufacturers do not cause violence, and the Second Amendment is not to blame for violence in this country.

I take issue with that term as I have never known a gun to be violent.

Democrats want to somehow blame gun manufacturers for violent crime.

We are here today because Democrats on this committee are bound and determined to politicize the horrible, tragic events that occurred in Uvalde, Texas.

I would submit that people are voicing their opinions with their pocketbooks, and I think that is a very, very strong opinion across the Nation.

I just want everyone to know that the firearms industry is not exempt from being sued by the public for a myriad of things.

President Biden made the claim that gun manufacturers are, quote, 'the only industry in America that is exempt from being sued by the public, the only one.'

I disagree completely with your statement that the AR-15 is a weapon of war.

That statement says that the Second Amendment protects weapons that are of primary use to a militia; and what is a militia? A militia is all able-bodied personnel that can be called up in defense of a free state.

It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service, M-16 rifles and the like, may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause.