Senators strike bipartisan gun deal, heralding potential breakthrough

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These are not material changes but are the best that one can hope for with the filibuster in effect

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/12/senate-gun-deal-framework/

A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators is set to announce Sunday that it reached a tentative agreement on legislation that would pair modest new gun restrictions with significant new mental health and school security investments — a deal that could put Congress on a path to enacting the most significant national response in decades to acts of mass gun violence.

The framework deal was confirmed Sunday by three people involved in the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their status ahead of a formal announcement, which is expected midday Sunday.

While substantially weaker than the assault weapons ban, high-capacity ammunition magazine restrictions and broad background check expansions that most Democrats support, the gun provisions set out in the framework could, if enacted, represent the most significant new federal firearms restrictions enacted since the mid-1990s.

Under the tentative deal, a federal grant program would encourage states to establish “red flag” laws that allow authorities to keep guns away from people found by a judge to represent a potential threat to themselves or others, while federal criminal background checks for gun buyers under 21 would include a mandatory search of juvenile justice records for the first time.

[Javaman]

1. So in summation, not a whole lot of changes

Just suggestions that states can ignore

Color me soooooooooo surprised

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[walkingman]

2. To celebrate this just shows how low the bar is these days.

[in2herbs]

3. The Ds successfully failed to even get a renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban. YEAH! Let's

applaud them for their failure. /snark/

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4. For this thread

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5. From Senator Murphy

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[in2herbs]

8. I just read the thread and here's my immediate take: You can still buy a guy if

you're under 21. You just need to pass a background check. Will the background check include any juvenile offenses? Usually, juvenile records are sealed.

Also, this compromise will "4/ Close the “boyfriend loophole”, so that no domestic abuser - a spouse OR a serious dating partner - can buy a gun if they are convicted of abuse against their partner."

The proposed provision states that an abuser can't buy a gun --- but will the law make the abuser turn over all the guns he already owns if he's convicted?

Finally, didn't read anything about this proposal changing the law affording immunity to gun and ammo mfgrs.

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6. Terms of deal

I am not impressed

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7. Statement From Presint Biden

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