After weeks of negotiating, fifteen Senate Republicans and fourteen House Republicans voted with Democrats to send the most wide-ranging gun control bill in over three decades to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Biden signed the bill into law just one day after it cleared the House, which took it up mere hours after the Senate approved it.
According to The Hill:
“Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” Biden said, adding that when he returns from a trip to Europe, he will host the lawmakers who worked on the legislation and family members of gun violence victims at the White House.
Biden, who said today is a “monumental day,” thanked the leaders in Congress who got the bill across the finish line and thanked the families of victims, who the president and the first lady have met with.
“I’ve been at this work for a long, long time and I know how hard it is and I know what is takes to get it done,” he said.
The bill, known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, enhances background checks for gun purchasers between the age of 18 and 21, makes obtaining firearms through straw purchases or trafficking a federal offense and clarifies the definition of a federally licensed firearm dealer.
It allocates $750 million to help states administer red flag laws, which seek to keep guns away from people deemed a threat to themselves or others, and other intervention programs, and it includes funding for mental health treatment.
Additionally, it closes the so-called boyfriend loophole by barring individuals from possessing a firearm for at least five years if they are convicted of a misdemeanor crime of violence involving a current or former romantic partner. It extends the law that previously only applied to abuse against spouses, a person they share a child with or a cohabitating partner.
Less than an hour after signing the law, Biden departed for the Group of Seven Summit in Germany.
It’s ironic the signs they hold say protect kids not guns on the other hand they want roe vs Wade which kills kids , it just shows how stupid Democrats are, all they want to do is bitch about something ,anything, and vandalize, loot and burn things, they’re stupid idiots
It is ironic , yet it is the plan of liberals to ban guns period. What grassroots liberals don’t get is that eventually it will go against them too, because they really aren’t anymore special to the upper crowd than we are… when your rights are gone , they are gone…
And the dumorats are against the death penalty for the most horrible murders imaginable, yet its ok to murder innocent babies.
They are all anti- Death Penalty for Murder also.
Wouldn’t that be exactly in line with being PRO LIFE?
Maybe he will stay out of the country!
He can stay in Mexico!
BUT THE BORDER IS WIDE OPEN, HE CAN JUST WALK BACK!
Bipartisan my ass. This is a full on bill built and moved forward be dems and wannabe dems we identify as rinos
You are so right. And one of the rinos was senator capito. She should know that is a big no no here in WV yet she sold us out. At least every time manchin sells us out he get some thing. (like wife got a good job) following that line of though wonder what capito got?
Are you trying to change the meaning of bipartisan? Do you even know what it means? Based on your answer you don’t
This law will have no effect on school and other mass shootings. What, do they think those perps bought the gun from a FFL?
I see the woman holding the sign that says, “Protect kids not guns.” I would have parents and society “Teach your kids responsibility, right values, respect toward each other and adults.” Parents be responsible for your children.
WASTE of Time and Paper. Democraps have already stripped the Law of the ability to punishment those who break it as they have done to all Laws in America. We NEED punishment put back into the Laws we already have not more WORTHLESS laws that Democraps push as needed.
We have seen the enemy within our ranks. Time to remove them. Recall Elections on the Quisling Fourteen.
There’s stuff in that bill that’s a violation of Constitution. We need to send it to the Supreme Court Justices who can licitly determine if it violates the Constitution. It indeed does. Joe Biden doesn’t even know what he signed. Neither would Kamala.
The horse is out of the barn on this one so going forward, do whatever you can to see that the clueless Rinos who voted for this are removed from office. Get involved, donate to better primary candidates, NOT the RNC. Every bit will help as in this case it wasn’t the Dems but Repubs who decided it.
Here we go again. Another stupid, useless, feel-good-but-do-nothing law. But, ignoring criminals and terrorists while further harassing good people is the hallmark of leftist ideology.
I could go on for days without stopping, explaining why this set of laws are useless, but the other readers already know what I mean.
All, “they” needed was a bunch of false flags and dead little sheep to push their agenda.
ROE V WADE IS SENT BACK TO THE STATES LEGISLATORS, THE GUN RESTRICTIONS WERE DELT WITH BY THE SUPREME COURT, THE RED FLAG LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BEING ABLE TO SUE THE GUN MANFACTUIRES OF MAKING AN INANIMATE OBJECT, AND THE YOUNG PROTESTORS ARE WANTING MORE ABORTIONS? BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!
What exactly is controversial about this?