President Biden celebrates landmark gun violence prevention law co-authored by Sen. John Cornyn, joined by survivors of massacres in Uvalde and Santa Fe,...
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who co-authored the new law as the lead Republican negotiator, had a front-and-center seat for Monday’s event.from gun rights supporters and booing during his remarks at the state GOP convention.
It also provides funding for states to adopt crisis intervention measures, which include “red flag” laws under which people can lose their firearms if a court finds they pose a danger to themselves or others. “What struck me this morning about the event at the White House is how much that President Biden and Democrats wanted in a bill that was not in this bill,” Cornyn said.
The law is the the most impactful firearms violence measure Congress has approved since enacting a now-expired assault weapons ban in 1993. Yet“It’s historic, but it’s also the very bare minimum of what Congress should do,” said Igor Volsky, director of the private group Guns Down America. Most of the new law’s $13 billion in spending would be used for bolstering mental health programs and for schools, which have been targeted by shooters in Newtown, Conn.; Parkland, Fla.; and many other gun massacres. It was the product of weeks of closed-door negotiations by a bipartisan group of senators who emerged with a compromise.
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