(CNN)The Senate voted critically on Thursday to finalize a major bipartisan gun safety bill. Ready to proceed. The vote is expected to be successful with Republican support, and the bill is on its way to passing the Senate soon this week.
This package represents the most important new federal law to combat gun violence since the 10-year ban on offensive weapons that expired in 1994. Most Americans want to see it.
Important votes in need of GOP support
But that is expected to happen after 14 Republicans voted to advance the bill in the first vote on Tuesday evening.
The Senate breaks the filibuster, paving the way for a final pass vote.
Senate leader Chuck Schumer called for the bill to pass this week, but the exact timing of the final vote has not yet been determined. If all 100 Senators agree on a time agreement, the Senate's final vote may take place as early as Thursday. This is done with a simple majority threshold.
Before signing the bill, the House of Representatives must then take up the bill.
The law was put together in the aftermath of a recent tragic shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, primarily in the black district.
A group of bipartisan negotiators began working in the Senate and released legislative documents on Tuesday. The bill, entitled Safer Bipartisan Community Law, is Senator John Cornyn of Texas, Senator Tom Tyris of North Carolina, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Announced by Senator.
Congressmen are currently competing to pass the bill before leaving Washington for July 4th Independence Day.
The fact that the bill text is complete and the bill appears ready to pass the Senate is a big win for the negotiators gathered to reach an agreement.
Despite countless mass shootings nationwide, it has been found to be extremely difficult for lawmakers to reach bipartisan agreements on major gun control in recent years. I am.
"Because of too long a political game in Washington on both sides of the aisle, we have stopped progress towards protecting our community and keeping our families safe," Cinema said. I said in a Senate floor speech on Wednesday.
"Throwing blame and trading political thorns and attacks has become the least reluctant path, but as always, our communities across the country have experienced meaningless violence. It's worth better than Washington's politics, "said the Democratic Party of Arizona. "Our community deserves the leader's commitment to put politics aside, identify problems that need to be resolved, and work hard to work together towards a common foundation and common goals."
Key provisions of the bill
This bill bans individuals convicted of domestic violence crimes against married partners or partners who share children or partners, a long-standing loophole in domestic violence law, the "boy." Close the Friend's Loophole. The people they lived with because they have guns. The old law did not include intimate partners who could not live together, get married, or share children. Currently, the law prohibits people convicted of domestic violent crimes against someone who "continues a serious relationship of romantic or intimate nature" with a gun.
The law is not retroactive. However, a person convicted of a violent domestic violent crime can regain his gun rights after five years if he has not committed any other offense.
The bill encourages states to include juvenile records in a national immediate criminal background check system with subsidies and implements a new protocol for checking those records.
The bill targets individuals who sell guns as their primary source of income, but previously evaded registration as a federal-approved firearms distributor. It will also increase funding for mental health programs and school safety.
Republicans split over the bill
There was a split between the Republicans and prominent members of the Republican leadership in the Senate.
But even if there are House Republican leaders who oppose the bill, there are already some Republicans who have indicated plans to vote on the bill. In the Senate.
Chairman Nancy Pelosi promised to "take it to the floor quickly" in the House of Representatives, "so that it could be sent to President Biden's desk" after passing the Senate.