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The U.S. Senate voted 64 to 34 late Tuesday to advance an 80-page gun control bill being dubbed “gun safety” legislation in what amounts to a kneejerk reaction to the recent shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. A vote on final passage is expected before the Senate departs for a two-week recess at the end of the week. The bill is subject to a threshold of 60 votes to end debate before passage.
The Democrat-run upper chamber introduced the Bipartisan Safe Communities Act Tuesday afternoon and voted on the bill within three hours, according to the National Association for Gun Rights. The pro-gun organization said in a statement that the bill “implements federal Red Flag gun confiscation funding, imposes a new misdemeanor gun ban, expands the NICS registry for 18-20 year olds, and criminalizes the private sale of firearms for scores of law-abiding Americans.”
“This is dark moment in the fight for our Second Amendment rights, but we aren’t giving up – we’ll only double down in our opposition,” said Dudley Brown, President of the National Association for Gun Rights. “Thanks to the treacherous work of anti-gun Republicans Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn, tax payer funding for Red Flag gun confiscation and de facto gun bans for 18-20 year old Americans is now closer to becoming reality than it ever has been in American history.”
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