PresidentJoe Bidensigned the largestgunfirebill in decades on Saturday. This is abipartisancompromise, a recent series of mass shootings involving the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at Texas Elementary School.
"Life will be saved," he said at the White House. Citing the families of the shooting victims, the president said: I did that today.
After the Senate passed on Thursday, the House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday, and Biden acted for two summits in Europe shortly before leaving Washington.
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The law tightens the background Check the youngest gun buyers, protect firearms from more domestic violence criminals, and make it easier for authorities to use weapons from those determined to be dangerous Help states enforce the Red Flag Act to make it available.
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Most of the $ 13 billion cost is a mental health program targeted in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland. And help strengthen aid schools. Mass shootings in Florida and elsewhere.
Biden said that the compromise proposed by the bipartisan senator group "does not do everything I want" but "includes the life-saving actions I have long sought. It has been. "
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"I know there's more to do and I'll never give up, but this is "Monumental day," said the president, who joined his wife, Jill, and a teacher for the signature.
He is an affected member And by gun violence that said he would host an event on July 11th for his family.
Biden signed the bill two days after Thursday's Supreme Court ruling broke New York's law limiting the ability of people to carry hidden weapons.
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The new law has a long Democratic Party, including a ban on attack-style weapons and a background check of all gun trade. It doesn't include the strict restrictions that it has defended, but it is the most influential firearm. Violent measures created by Congress since the ban on expiring offensive weapons was enacted in 1993.
A sufficient number of Republicans have joined the Democratic Party to support measures after the recent riots in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas. After a few weeks of private discussions, the senator compromised.
Byden signs the bill shortly before leaving Washington for a group summit of seven major German economic powers (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) did. He will later travel to Spain for a NATO meeting.
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