More than 60 mayors demand GOP-led House adopt assault weapons ban in wake of mass shootings

Dozens of mayors from across the country demanded on Thursday that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson move forward to reinstate a federal assault weapons ban.

The more than 60 mayors, who sent their demand to Johnson in a letter dated Nov. 9, pointed to recent mass shootings, including one in Lewiston, Maine, that claimed 18 lives recently, as impetus behind a renewed push to strengthen the country’s notoriously weak gun laws..