{"id":1528488,"date":"2022-06-25T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528488"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:56:29","slug":"biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs Most Expansive Gun Control Bill In Decades Into Law Following Republican Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gun-control\">gun control<\/a> bill into law Saturday that gives financial grants to states for \u201cred-flag\u201d laws and increases background check stipulations for 18 to 21-year-olds, following Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/legislation\/2022\/06\/25\/bills-signed-s-2089-and-s-2938\/\">dubbed<\/a> the \u201cBipartisan Safer Communities Act,\u201d passed after making it through Congress earlier this week with 15 Republicans in the Senate supporting the bill and 14 House Republicans voting in favor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the White House, the law \u201cenhances certain restrictions and penalties on firearms purchases; promotes evidence-based best practices for school safety; authorizes grants to expand access to mental health services; and appropriates emergency funding for mental health resources and school safety measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration specifically thanked Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), John Coryn (R-TX), and Thom Tillis (R-NC). Senators began working on a gun bill following the horrific shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-signs-gun-control-bill-deadly-mass-shootings\">claimed<\/a> that \u201clives will be saved\u201d because of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-passes-gun-control-bill-with-15-republicans-joining-democrats\">considered<\/a> the most expansive gun control legislation in decades, and was supported by Republican leadership in the Senate, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights groups have criticized the legislation and the Republicans who voted for it.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Owners of America (GOA) said that the legislation \u201cwould encourage Backdoor Universal Background Checks by redefining many private sellers as gun dealers, financially incentivize states to enact unconstitutional \u2018red-flag\u2019 laws, and would allow for so-called \u2018enhanced background checks,\u2019 which are arbitrary delays in transferring firearms to adults not yet 21 years-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, so-called \u2018conservative\u2019 Senators are making clear they believe that the rights of American citizens can be compromised away,\u201d Erich Pratt, GOA\u2019s Senior Vice President, said.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from McConnell, Coryn, and Tillis, other Republican Senators who voted for the bill included Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Todd Young (R-IN).<\/p>\n<p>The House easily <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3536317-here-are-the-14-house-republicans-who-voted-for-the-gun-safety-bill\/\">passed<\/a> the bill by a vote of 234-193 before it moved on to Biden\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans who voted for the bill included Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Fred Upton (R-MI), Mike Turner (R-OH), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar (R-FL), David Joyce (R-OH), John Katko (R-NY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL.), Peter Meijer (R-MI) and Tom Rice (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p><em>Zach Jewell contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden signed a gun control bill into law Saturday that gives financial grants to states for \u201cred-flag\u201d laws and increases background check stipulations for 18 to 21-year-olds, following Republican support.\u00a0 The bill, dubbed the \u201cBipartisan Safer Communities Act,\u201d passed after making it through Congress earlier this week with 15 Republicans in the Senate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1528507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}