President Biden made a passionate call for tougher gun restrictions Friday, celebrating the one-year anniversary of the first significant piece of federal firearms legislation in nearly three decades but declaring it was only an “important first step”
irearms legislation in nearly three decades but declaring it was only an "important first step." He urged voters to defeat lawmakers who resist.
Last year's law toughened background checks for the youngest gun buyers, sought to keep firearms from domestic violence offenders and aimed to help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier to take weapons away from people judged to be dangerous.Stepped-up FBI background checks have blocked more than 200 transactions of attempted purchasers under the age of 21.
"We actually had it wrong for a long time. We left an opportunity on the table for decades," Murphy said of the push for gun safety legislation. He said there was an impression after Democratic election losses that dogged the party following passage of a crime bill in the 1990s that voters weren't interested in gun safety and it was a losing issue politically.
"I'm a little apprehensive," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "I don't want them writing a rule that basically deviates from what we've negotiated or voted on." "I think there's no question about it, the passage was a watershed moment," said John Feinblatt, head of Everytown for Gun Safety. The law "clearly broke a log jam."
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