Congress set to give final approval to bipartisan compromise gun bill spurred by Texas and N.Y. mass shootings

Congress was set on Friday to give final approval to a compromise gun bill that won bipartisan support after last month’s bloody massacres in a Buffalo, New York supermarket and a Texas elementary school in Uvalde.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would quickly move to pass the bill that modestly tightens some restrictions after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve it over the vehement objections of right-wing gun-rights advocates.

“Every day, gun violence steals lives and scars communities — and this crisis demands urgent action,” Pelosi said.

The $13 billion package toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help some states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous.

It would also fund local programs for school safety, mental health and violence prevention.

President Biden hailed the bill, calling it an important step to prevent the blood lettings that have become a shockingly regular feature of American life.

“Kids in schools and communities will be safer because of it,” the president said after the Senate passed the bill late Thursday.

Even though they support the measure, anti-gun violence advocates say much more action is needed, like a ban on assault weapons and the high-capacity ammunition magazines that are key tools mass killers use to murder as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

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They also want to raise the age to purchase some guns to prevent teenage boys who are disproportionately responsible for the rampages from easily buying deadly weapons.

Pro-gun Republicans emphatically reject such measures as infringements on the Second Amendment.

Ironically, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court handed them a massive victory on the same day Thursday by striking down a century-old New York law that required gun owners to show that they have a reason to carry concealed handguns in public.

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The modest action comes a month after a crazed gunman massacred 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school as law enforcement inexplicably waited for more than an hour to end the rampage.

That slaughter came days after a white supremacist teen killed 10 Black shoppers in a Buffalo grocery store.

The two massacres prompted both parties to conclude that Congress had to act, especially in an election year. After weeks of closed-door talks, Senate bargainers from both parties produced a compromise that they agree may have some impact.

The Senate approved the measure Thursday by 65-33. Led by GOP Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), 15 Republicans backed it.

The support marked a significant shift for a party that has derailed even the most innocuous gun curbs for decades.

Still, more than two-thirds of GOP senators backed the measure.

Former President Trump, by far the most powerful GOP leader, warned GOP lawmakers that a “yes” vote would amount to a “career-ending move.”

With Republicans in the House almost unanimously opposed, there is little hope for more serious action in the future, especially if the GOP retakes one or both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections.