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US president signs first major gun reform law in decades

BY ALJAZEERA

 

The law is the most impactful firearms measure produced by Congress since the enactment of the assault weapons ban in 1993.

US President Joe Biden has signed the first major federal gun reform in three decades, a bipartisan compromise that comes in light of a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

The law, deemed the first significant federal bill on gun safety in decades, falls short of what is really needed, Biden acknowledged on Saturday, but it will “save lives”, he said.

“While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does include actions I’ve long called for that are going to save lives,” Biden said at the White House before leaving for two major diplomatic summits in Europe.

 

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  1. Ventriloquist Kriket Ventriloquist Kriket June 25, 2022

    Once legal action is taken, it will go straight to SCOTUS, which will rule the signed law a nullity because of Bill of Rights, Second Amendment.

    “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

    Hope some dictum that the acting President is illegal, as resolved in the Great State of Texas GOP”… not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”

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