President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a bipartisan bill of gun safety measures, which Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called the “most significant piece of anti-gun-violence legislation Congress has passed in three decades.”
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act contains modest curbs on buying guns as well as funds to boost mental health care and school security. It also enhances background checks for people under 21 and puts restrictions on abusive domestic partners obtaining guns.
“Time is of the essence, lives will be saved,” Biden said in remarks alongside first lady Jill Biden before the signing.
The president talked about meeting the families of victims of mass shootings all over the U.S., and the families of those killed in shootings that happen all the time in America that we often don’t hear about.
“Their message to us was: Do something. For God’s sake, just do something. Well, today, we did,” he said.
“While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it…
