WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate agreement has the potential to break through nearly 30 years of bitter congressional gridlock over how to stem the nation’s gun violence, but the proposal has become entangled in familiar disputes over due process and the definition of domestic violence offenders.
“We’ve run into a couple of bumps in the road that have slowed things down a little bit,” the lead Republican negotiator on the bill, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said Wednesday on the floor.
Recent mass shootings, including one at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead, have renewed calls for action on Capitol Hill.
