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Jon Skolnik

GOP turn on McConnell over gun reform

Mike Lee, Thomas Massie and Eric Greitens Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Republicans are bashing their own caucus in the Senate as more members of the party sign onto a bipartisan gun reform package in the wake of a devastating school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left nineteen children and two adults dead. 

The right-wing outrage stems largely from a Tuesday Senate vote in which 14 Republicans and 50 Democrats approved modest legislation, dubbed the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," designed to crack down on America's epidemic of gun violence.

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