US House passes gun-safety legislation in victory for Biden

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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The US House of Representatives on Friday (June 24) passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades, sending it to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. The House voted 234-193 for the Bill, the day...

Passage of what some Democrats characterised as a modest, first-step Bill followed mass murders last month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Noting that guns have become the leading"killer of children in America," Ms Pelosi said Congress must now go further and legislate more changes to gun-sale background checks and restrictions on"high-capacity armament". "Today, they are coming after law-abiding American citizens' Second Amendment liberties," said Representative Jim Jordan, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

 

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