Killings continue in the US amid political strife.
U.S. lawmakers eventually passed a gun control law before the U.S. Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling that could serve as a model for challenging gun control laws in the country.
Two important yet contradictory developments have taken place in recent days in relation to firearms in the United States, which once again showed the internal rift at the highest levels of the United States regarding this problem. Controversy among US officials, while most polls show that the majority of Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are fed up with the intensity and frequency of armed violence across the country and want to control it.
In an unexpected bipartisan compromise, the US Congress passed a bill to limit gun control in the United States, which will become law after Biden signs it.
The move comes a day after the US Supreme Court ruled to repeal the New York-based Arms Control Act, which conservative judges called unconstitutional.
Analysts say the court ruling and its opposition to the Senate’s passage of the Arms Control Act show a deep divide in the United States over firearms and undermine that law.
At the same time, the opposition of a majority of Republican lawmakers to gun control laws and the possibility of them gaining control of the House and Senate in the November midterm elections leaves the fate of Congress’ future action on guns in limbo.
Status assessment
In a surprise bipartisan compromise after the bloody mass shootings in Texas and New York in May, the US Congress passed a bill that imposes the most severe arms control restrictions in the United States in decades. The US House of Representatives on Friday passed the arms control bill by 234 votes to 193, sending it to Biden for signature. The Senate had earlier approved the measure by a vote of 65 to 33 by late Thursday.
