Today I join over 100 of my colleagues in calling for House of Representatives leadership to bring legislation to the House floor that would ban high capacity magazines like the ones used in the Newtown shooting. These high capacity magazines allow shootings to be more deadly than they otherwise might be by giving gunmen the power to fire off dozens of rounds in a matter of minutes. I have been a long-time supporter of common-sense legislation to ban these extremely destructive high-capacity magazines.