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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mattha Busby

First Thing: Senators reach bipartisan gun control deal after mass shootings

President Joe Biden meets with US Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat of Connecticut), about gun control outside the Oval Office on 7 June.
Joe Biden meets with the US senator Chris Murphy to discuss about gun control outside the Oval Office on 7 June. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

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A group of senators have announced a limited bipartisan framework for gun reform in response to last month’s mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, marking a modest breakthrough for measured checks on ownership of deadly weapons – though the proposals do not ban assault weapons or raise the age required to buy them to 21.

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