After weeks of negotiations, there has been a major breakthrough on gun reform in the United States. AmeliaAdams9 9News LATEST:
Senate bargainers have announced a bipartisan framework overnight responding to last month's mass shootings in the US, a noteworthy though limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.Even so, the accord was embraced by Biden and enactment would signal a significant turnabout after years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.
Leaders hope to push any agreement into law rapidly - they hope this month - before the political momentum fades that has been stirred by the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. The group, led by Senators Chris Murphy, D-Conn, John Cornyn, R-Texas, Thom Tillis, R-NC, and Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz, produced the agreement after two weeks of closed-door talks.There is a renewed debate over gun control following the 24 May shooting of 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.The compromise would make the juvenile records of gun buyers under age 21 available when they undergo background checks.
Some people who informally sell guns for profit would be required to obtain federal dealers' licenses, which means they would have to conduct background checks of buyers. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, who has supported the talks, was more restrained. He praised the bargainers' work and said he is hoping for a deal that makes "significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country."
The agreement represents a lowest common denominator compromise on gun violence, not a complete sea change in Congress. Lawmakers have demonstrated a newfound desire to move ahead after saying their constituents have shown a heightened desire for congressional action since Buffalo and Uvalde, but Republicans still oppose more sweeping steps that Democrats want and yesterday's agreement omits.
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