The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the measure, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in the country, CNN reports. The bill will next go to the House for a vote before it can be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades.The bipartisan gun deal includes millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programmes and incentives for states to include juvenile records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
The bill encourages states to include juvenile records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System with grants as well as implements a new protocol for checking those records. The vote on the federal gun safety bill came on the same day as the Supreme Court struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home.
The vote was 65-34, with 15 GOP senators joining Democrats to break the filibuster. The same 15 GOP senators who voted to break the filibuster voted to approve the measure on final passage.
Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Passengers rush out as plane bursts into flames at US airportNo fewer than three persons were hospitalised after an airplane caught fire when it landed at Miami International Airport on Tuesday.
Read more »
Anybody Labelling Us As Terrorists Should Visit Psychiatric Hospital – IPOB Slams Buhari Government | Sahara ReportersThe group, in a statement on Wednesday by Emma Powerful, noted that anyone who tags it as a terror or proscribed group needs to be examined at a psychiatrist's hospital.
Read more »
Kidnappers fined us N1m for late payment, collected N11m - Katsina coupleTwo of the recently kidnapped victims in Katsina, a husband and wife, have regained freedom after reportedly paying N11m ransom.
Read more »
ADC presidential candidate denies tax fraud allegations in USThe presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Dumebi Kachikwu, has denied allegations of tax fraud in the United States.
Read more »
Show us pipelines we vandalised, IPOB dares BuhariThe Indigenous People of Biafra has described the comments by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that the group was responsible for pipeline vandalism in the country as 'laughable, disgraceful and fallacious'.
Read more »
Oil prices fall as U.S. moves to cut fuel tax - Premium Times NigeriaBrent crude futures were down $4.65, or 4.1 per cent, at $110.00 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures fell $5.08, or 4.6 per cent.
Read more »