Senate passes first significant gun legislation in nearly three decades. The bill is expected to clear the House as well.
The 65-to-33 vote represented an unlikely breakthrough on the emotional and polarizing question of U.S. gun laws, which have gone largely unchanged for more than 25 years, even as the nation has been repeatedly scarred by mass shootings whose names have become etched in history — from Columbine and Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook and Parkland.
“I thought it was time to act, and if [Democrats] were willing to join with us and pass legislation that actually targeted the problem, which is school safety and mental health, why would we not want to do that?” he added.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said in a speech Thursday that the bill “is not a cure-all for all the ways gun violence affects our nation, but it is a long overdue step in the right direction.” Other Senate Republicans voiced an array of misgivings about the bill, most of them arguing that the bill did not do enough to protect law-abiding Americans’ constitutional rights.Some conservative senators filed amendments to the bill, such as an alternative from Sens. John Barrasso and Ted Cruz that would fund school-based security officers and mental health programs while leaving current gun laws intact.
None of the measures included in the present bill go nearly so far, however. They are best described as modest expansions and adjustments to existing laws — such as the closing of the “boyfriend loophole,” a gap in a 1996 law aimed at keeping guns away from domestic-violence offenders.Existing law, however, bars weapons sales only to misdemeanor domestic-violence offenders who committed their crimes against a spouse or a partner with whom they had lived or had a child.
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