While most people were preoccupied with watching the Michael Cohen show in from of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Democrats passed a new gun control bill.

The new proposed law would ban anyone from selling a firearm without a federal background check being completed. That goes for anyone selling it anywhere, even if you’re selling it to your friend.

According to NPR,

The House passed what advocates call the most significant gun control measure in more than two decades on Wednesday when it approved the first of two bills aimed at broadening the federal background check system for firearms purchases.

The vote on the first bill, dubbed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, passed largely along party lines 240 to 190 with Democrats who control the House cheering as they carried the legislation across the finish line.

A second bill, expected to be take up Thursday, would extend the period federal authorities have to complete a background check before a gun sale can go through. Under current law, if a check isn’t finalized in three business days, the transaction can automatically proceed.

This is the first significant gun bill in about 20 years.

So what exactly is in the bill though?

The Blaze reports that,

Currently, only licensed gun dealers have to run a background check on a customer who wants to buy a gun. This bill would prohibit any gun sale from taking place without a federal background check being completed. This includes private gun sales between friends or strangers, online purchases, and gun show purchases.

The law would not apply to gun transfers between close relatives (parents/children, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, spouses, domestic partners, grandparents/grandchildren).

Gun owners would be able to loan their gun to someone at a shooting range or for hunting/trapping/fishing as long as there is no reason to suspect the gun will be used in a crime and the person is legally able to possess a gun under state and federal law.

Guns could still be given to someone else in a “temporary transfer that is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, if the possession by the transferee lasts only as long as immediately necessary to prevent the imminent death or great bodily harm,” according to the bill.

This bill is actually likely to pass.

According to a recent poll, 92% of people support the additional background checks. Even when breaking it down into political affiliation, 89% of Republicans support the background checks and 95% of Democrats support it.