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Gun reforms act to become nationwide law after Biden's approval
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Gun reforms act to become nationwide law after Biden's approval
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NEW YORK, June 26 (TIWN): US President Joe Biden has put his official seal of approval to the bipartisan Safe Communities Act (that seeks gun control and end to violence) to make it an enforceable law after both Houses of the Congress passed the gun reforms legislation in the swiftest manner possible with a good majority before the Parliament was set to take a two-week recess.

"Lives will be saved, " said Biden after he approved the Senate and Houses' most sweeping anti-gun violence laws in almost three decades over which a bipartisan committee of 20 Senators, drawn in equal halves from the Republican and Democratic parties, negotiated hours on end to get a framework legislation to pass in both Houses.

The legislation falls short of all the demands of the Democrats while for the Republicans it's a face-saving gesture with the American public crying wolf for strict gun laws in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Buffalo super store in New York and Texas public school in Uvalde that claimed 10 black lives and resulted in the death of 19 school children and two teachers in the most horrific slaying of the innocent common people.

Signing off on the bills of Congress to make it official law enforceable throughout the United States, Biden said, "Lives will be saved. Their (grieving families that suffered the Texas and Buffalo shootings) message to us (Congressmen) was to do something. Well today, we did."

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