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Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam
By ALAN FRAM flects important steps in the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen- right direction, and would
ate bargainers announced be the most significant gun
a bipartisan framework safety legislation to pass
Sunday responding to last Congress in decades."
month's mass shootings, Given the bipartisan sup-
a noteworthy though lim- port, "there are no excuses
ited breakthrough offering for delay, and no reason
modest gun curbs and bol- why it should not quickly
stered efforts to improve move through the Senate
school safety and mental and the House," he said.
health programs. Leaders hope to push any
The proposal falls far short agreement into law rapid-
of tougher steps long ly — they hope this month
sought by President Joe Bi- — before the political mo-
den and many Democrats. mentum fades that has
Even so, the accord was been stirred by the recent
embraced by Biden and mass shootings in Buffalo,
enactment would signal New York, and Uvalde,
a significant turnabout af- Texas.
ter years of gun massacres Participants cautioned that
that have yielded little but final details and legislative
stalemate in Congress. language remain to be
Biden said in a statement completed, meaning fresh Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks during a rally near Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 10,
that the framework "does disputes and delays might 2022, urging Congress to pass gun legislation. Associated Press
not do everything that I emerge.
think is needed, but it re- Continued on next page