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Gun reform deal reached by U.S. senators with key Republican backing
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In a potential breakthrough toward the first significant new U.S. gun law in decades, a bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced an agreement on a framework for a firearms safety bill with enough Republican support to advance in the narrowly divided Senate.

The plan, praised by President Joe Biden, includes support for state "red flag" laws keeps guns from potentially dangerous people, tougher criminal background checks for firearms buyers under 21 and a crackdown on "straw purchases" by people buying firearms for others who could not pass a background check.

Crafted in the aftermath of last month's massacres at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the framework is far less ambitious than proposals offered by Biden and other Democrats for banning semi-automatic, assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines or at least raising the minimum age to buy those from 18 to 21.

It was announced a day after tens of thousands rallied in Washington and around the United States to demand that lawmakers pass legislation aimed at curbing gun violence.

Source(s): Reuters

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