A Texas congressman's controversial bill to allow a public firing range in Washington D.C. is garnering a lot of attention and heat.
After an unsuccessful Senate bid, Republican Rep. Steve Stockman is attempting to push one last bill before he leaves Congress, Fox News reported. A public firing range in Washington, D.C. since the District currently does not have any.
Introduced in late November, the proposal reportedly aims to provide local gun enthusiasts with much more convenience than having to often travel to Maryland and Virginia for a session of firing practice.
However not only has the bill failed to attract any co-sponsors, but with the last two weeks of the congressional session approaching, it is most probably not going to feature on their top priority list.
Additionally, the District's lone congressional delegate, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, has denounced the bill in a statement, claiming its initiation as "one last chance to bully the District of Columbia."
Apart from fighting for a public firing range, the Republican lawmaker also introduced a bill in the same session that calls for D.C. to toss out their red-light cameras under the so-called "Safer American Streets Act."
Meanwhile, Stockman has been in the headlines regularly for his controversial stands, specifically on the issue of guns.
Last year, he proposed the slogan, "If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted."
In another instance, the 58-year-old tweeted a giveaway for an AR-15 rifle with the message "Grab this gun before Obama does!"
In October, Attorney General Eric Holder said that not being able to pass expanded gun control laws was his biggest failure as head of the Justice Department during an interview on CNN's "The Lead."
"I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is, for me, something that I take personally as a failure, and something that I think we as a society should take as a failure," he said.
