The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern. Watch it live here.
Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December, is set to testify.
He and three dozen others — including other Newtown families and relatives of other mass shooting victims — are in Washington lobbying lawmakers.
The legislation is sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to ban assault weapons.
Other witnesses testifying include William Begg, an emergency room doctor who treated Newtown victims that day, and U.S. attorney John Walsh from Colorado.
— The Associated Press
Photo: Neil Heslin holds a picture of himself with his son Jesse and wipes his eye before testifying at a hearing in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. AP/Jessica Hill
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The little people had to ‘bear arms’ for the Church, King, Lord/Manor long before guns were invented. During my time in a combat ready Army unit we bore many arms that were not guns. Why did this term suddenly become carrying guns? Consider what it meant in the 1780’s when the Constitution and later the Bill of Rights were written. Even today Conscientious Objectors cannot be forced to bear arms. Even though they hunt, shoot, buy and sell guns.