House Republicans criticized Democrats on Monday for using a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to call for gun control.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was at the House Oversight Committee hearing to testify about security failures that led to a 20-year-old gunman opening fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this month, shooting the former president in the ear, wounding two rallygoers, and killing a third.
But committee members such as Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., used much of their time to highlight the type of rifle the gunman borrowed from his father, who had legally purchased the weapon.
Raskin began by expressing concern about “all the AR-15s out there” and spent several minutes of his speaking time urging a federal ban on the…
