Biden Signs Bipartisan Gun Bill Into Law

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday signed into regulation a bipartisan gun invoice meant to stop harmful individuals from accessing firearms and put money into psychological well being throughout the nation, breaking by way of years of stalemate over whether or not to toughen the nation’s gun legal guidelines.

Mr. Biden signed the invoice a day after it cleared the House and two days after it handed the Senate, the place a small bipartisan group of senators labored to succeed in a compromise that would break a Republican filibuster, a hurdle that has lengthy stymied any effort to alter gun legal guidelines.

Passage of the laws got here one month after a horrific mass capturing at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 youngsters and two lecturers lifeless, because the nation was already reeling from a racist assault at a grocery store in Buffalo. And whereas Mr. Biden acknowledged that the invoice fell far wanting the sweeping gun management measures he had pushed for, he famous that it included some long-sought priorities.

“God willing,” Mr. Biden stated as he put his pen down, “it’s going to save a lot of lives.”