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Posted: 6/24/2022 3:26:20 PM EDT
The House wasted no time in enacting more gun control in the wake of yesterday's pro rights SCOTUS opinion.

House sends bipartisan gun legislation to Biden for signature
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/house-bipartisan-gun-legislation-president-joe-biden

The House passed bipartisan gun legislation on Friday, setting up the bill for President Joe Biden's signature on the most substantial firearm reforms to become law in more than 25 years.

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators, passed the Senate 65-33 on Thursday evening, with 15 Republicans voting for the measure. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) negotiated the guns bill.

The measure includes language to incentivize states to implement red flag laws, which would make it easier for law enforcement to confiscate a firearm and block the purchase of a gun if a person is deemed to be a danger to oneself or others. The bill would also look to tighten background checks on people under 21 looking to purchase a gun. It would further close the so-called boyfriend loophole by tightening background checks on gun purchases of those convicted of domestic violence or certain crimes as minors in addition to providing money for trauma support, school safety, and mental health programs.

The measure's swift move through Congress comes in the wake of an uptick in mass shootings in recent months, with the death of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, 10 being killed in a grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York, and a hospital shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that left four dead. These episodes, on top of years of mass shootings around the country, have sparked calls for Congress to take action to curb gun violence.

Democrats said they would have liked to have seen more dramatic reforms, with some advocating for a ban on assault weapons and the age to purchase a firearm raised to 21. But they praised the bipartisan measure as a step in the right direction.

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Link Posted: 6/26/2022 11:18:27 PM EDT
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They will never stop until they have the whole damn cake.
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