On June 2, local time, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the gun control bill as a response to the recent mass shootings in the United States.

  The bill includes a crackdown on high-capacity magazines and privately-made guns without serial numbers. The committee's chairman, Jerrold Nadler, said the American people are "begging" lawmakers to take action on gun control, and the committee's chairman Several Republican lawmakers opposed some of the gun control rules.

  The House will vote on the package as early as next week, but the bill is expected to be blocked in the Senate due to opposition from a majority of Republicans.

  At present, the hearing is still going on.

(CCTV reporter Xu Dezhi)