Overview
- House Democrats started a sit-in Thursday night after a 67-67 tie failed to reach the two-thirds needed to suspend rules and force a vote on the Senate gun bill.
- Republican leaders rescheduled the next House session for Saturday at noon, and Democrats say they will remain on the floor until then.
- GOP lawmakers say Rep. Aisha Gomez told Rep. Elliott Engen to shoot himself, though closer video released Friday captures her saying, “Think of them, not yourself,” and Republicans still seek her removal from a committee role.
- The Senate-passed package would ban some semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, restrict binary triggers and unserialized “ghost guns,” and fund school safety and mental health supports.
- Parents from the Annunciation school shooting delivered roughly 7,000 to 8,000 petition signatures Thursday, while Speaker Lisa Demuth says the bill stalled in House committees and its fate before Sunday night’s adjournment is unclear.