Liberal Senator Frank Lautenberg promised to reintroduce gun control legislation in the wake of Friday's Aurora theater shooting.
Last year following the Giffords' shooting in Arizona Lautenberg introduced anti-gun legislation. He later talked with CNN about the importance of taking high-capacity gun magazines off the market.
Mediaite reported:
Despite all of the calls not to politicize the Colorado shootings last night, gun control advocates have been demanding that politicians use it as an opportunity to take action on national gun laws. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said earlier that they ???don???t want sympathy??? from President Obama and Mitt Romney, they ???want action.??? It is with all of this in mind that New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg is planning on reintroducing gun control legislation on the Senate floor to limit high-capacity magazines.
According to The Huffington Post, Lautenberg brought similar legislation to the floor following last year???s shooting in Arizona involving former congresswoman Gabby Giffords. At the time, Lautenberg said that ???the only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly??? and pledged that he would introduce legislation to ban high-capacity ammunition clips.
Lautenburg???s office sent this statement to the Post earlier today:
???If reports are correct and a high-capacity gun magazine was used to commit these awful murders, Senator Lautenberg will absolutely renew his effort to limit the availability of this dangerous firearm attachment.???
