- President Joe Biden signs the bipartisan Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law.
- The bill is the biggest piece of gun legislation on Capitol Hill in three decades.
- It doesn’t include a firearm ban, but does offer $750 million for crisis intervention programs.
Biden ratifies the bipartisan gun legislation. The largest piece of gun legislation to pass Capitol Hill in thirty years was formally passed on Saturday; when President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan gun package into law. The plan was drafted by two Republican senators and two Democrats; and it constitutes the biggest advancement in gun laws since the 1994 assault weapons prohibition; which is now out of date. According to Biden, “God willing, it’s going to save a lot of lives.”
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The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act does not include any type of firearm ban; but it does provide $750 million for crisis intervention programmes; such as red flag programmes and mental health courts, and it closes the “boyfriend loophole” in domestic violence law; making it so that partners who are not married, do not have children together; or do not live together but are still intimately involved with a person could be prohibited from owning a gun; if found guilty of domestic violence.
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