Tentative Senate gun deal has surprises, and loose ends
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Democrats and Republicans are working to fortify background check and red-flag laws already in place, but the deal faces a tough road ahead to even get passed.
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Senate bargainers announce outline of gun violence agreement
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Tentative Senate gun deal has surprises, and loose ends
The agreement would offer money to states to implement “red flag” laws that make it easier to temporarily take guns from people considered potentially violent.
A bipartisan group of US senators on Sunday proposed steps to curb gun violence following devastating mass shootings in Texas and New York, but the limited measures fall far short of the president's…
The proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by President Joe Biden and many Democrats. Even so, if the accord leads to the enactment of legislation, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.
A bipartisan group of US senators announced proposed measures aimed at reducing gun violence. President Joe Biden welcomed the steps saying they were 'important steps" in the right direction.
The agreement would offer money to states to implement “red flag” laws that make it easier to temporarily take guns from people considered potentially violent.
Senate negotiators in both parties are pushing to announce as soon as Sunday the outlines of an agreement on new measures to address gun violence, according to sources familiar with the talks.
Democrats and Republicans are working to fortify background check and red-flag laws already in place, but the deal faces a tough road ahead to even get passed.
The outline of a bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement to rein in gun violence has no game-changing steps banning the deadliest firearms. It does propose measured provisions making it harder for some young gun buyers, or people considered threatening, to have weapons.
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