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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joan E Greve in Washington

Gun reformers feel history is on their side despite bleak outlook in Congress

Crosses with the names of shooting victims outside Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Crosses with the names of shooting victims outside Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

When Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law this summer, he and congressional Democrats celebrated the enactment of the first significant gun control policy in decades in the US.

The US president also acknowledged that the law, a bipartisan compromise brokered after the Uvalde tragedy that left 19 children and two adults dead, did not go nearly far enough to address the devastation caused by gun violence.

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