House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) presented five gun control bills on Wednesday. One of the bills, according to The Hill, is the Handgun Trigger Act, aims to encourage the development of “smart-gun technology,” which would only allow authorized gun owners to fire the weapon. Another bill, the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act, seeks to make the purchasing of a gun for an unauthorized person a felony instead of a misdemeanor. Maloney also proposed the Firearm Risks Protection Act, which requires gun owners to obtain liability insurance. The other two bills that the New York Democrat is proposing are the Gunshow Loop Hole Act, which orders gun show sellers to perform background checks when selling a firearm, and the NICS Review Act, which aims at having the FBI hold on to records of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for three months in order to allow the Bureau of Alcohol, …
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