Amid reports the Trump administration is in talks with senators on possible background check legislation for gun purchases, nearly 200 House Democrats have signed onto a more far-reaching effort to re-institute a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons like those used in a number of recent mass shootings.

“It takes no courage to put on the Senate floor a bill that is supported by 90 percent of America. What takes courage is to look a special interest group in the eye and say enough is enough, it’s time to act.”
—Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)

Following this month’s massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the Democratic Party has nearly reached the threshold needed to pass H.R. 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018, which was introduced last year by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.). With 198 co-sponsors, just 20 more supporters are needed to pass the legislation in the House.

The bill would ban military-style semi-automatic guns, commonly called assault weapons, and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones that were used in El Paso and Dayton.

The grassroots group Newtown Action, founded in the wake of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, called on all Democrats in the House to back the legislation, which according to polls would be supported by most Americans.

Seven in 10 Americans support a ban on assault weapons, according to a recent Politico/Morning Consult survey, including more than half of Republican voters.

A vast majority of people—about 90 percent—also back the universal background checks legislation which the Trump administration is reportedly discussing with senators including two authors of similar legislation that failed to pass in 2013, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), as well as leading gun control advocate Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

But some House Democrats are arguing that lawmakers must be more ambitious than pushing simply for strengthened background checks—as Republicans like President Donald Trump insist that lawmakers continue to take the powerful pro-gun lobby’s views into consideration.

“It takes no courage to put on the Senate floor a bill that is supported by 90 percent of America,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters on Tuesday. “What takes courage is to look a special interest group in the eye and say enough is enough, it’s time to act.”