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Biden makes case for speed in passing gun-law changes

Joe Biden urged US lawmakers to get a deal on gun reforms to his desk quickly as a group of senators announced a limited bipartisan framework responding to last month’s mass shootings.

The proposed deal is a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs while bolstering efforts to improve school safety and mental health programmes. It falls far short of tougher steps long sought by Biden, many Democrats, gun reform advocates and citizens. For example, there is no proposal to ban assault weapons, as activists had wanted, or to increase the age for purchase from 18 to 21. Even so, if the accord leads to the enactment of legislation, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.

Biden acknowledged the deal’s weaknesses but welcomed and urged quick action. “It does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction,” he said, adding: “There are no excuses for delay, and no reason why it should not quickly move through the Senate and the House. Each day that passes, more children are killed in this country.”

2 UKRAINE

Families ‘devastated’ by Britons’ death sentences

The family of a British man sentenced to death for fighting Russian

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