The US Senate has passed its first new gun control legislation in 28 years, winning the support of all 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans, including minority leader Mitch McConnell, as a landmark bipartisan bill was voted through 65-33.
The 80-page proposal was drawn-up by a negotiating panel of 20 senators led by Democrats Chris Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema and Republicans John Cornyn and Thom Tillis in response to the latest deadly mass shootings to strike the country, particularly the murder of 10 black grocery shoppers by a white supremacist at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, twin tragedies that occurred within days of each other last month.
