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Howard Manly, Race + Equity Editor, The Conversation US

First bipartisan gun control bill in a generation signed into law: 3 essential reads on what it means

President Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

President Joe Biden signed into law on June 25, 2022, a bipartisan bill that is the first significant change in federal gun legislation in nearly three decades.

Known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the bill was written in response to the shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, and sped through a usually slow-moving Congress.

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