A bipartisan group of twenty U.S. Senators, including Ohio Republican Rob Portman, on Sunday announced an agreement on legislation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands people who might use them for violent purposes.
on legislation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands people who might use them for violent purposes.
The proposal’s backers include 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats. Support from 10 Republicans is needed under current Senate rules for most legislation to make it to the Senate floor.of gun control measures that would include banning high capacity ammunition magazines and limiting the purchase of most semiautomatic weapons to people over age 21, but that measure had no chance to pass the Senate. Rocky River Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez was one of just five Republicans who supported it.
President Joe Biden said he supports the proposal, and thanked the bipartisan group that negotiated it.
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