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On the recordJune 27, 2026
four years ago, after the awful shooting in Uvalde, four senators got together, supported by another bigger ring of bipartisan senators, and we were able to come up with a bill that was not perfect, was not everything that I wanted, or that many other Democratic senators wanted, but it was progress. And we have seen the impact of that bill. Literally extraordinary declines in mass shootings and homicides all happening, not coincidentally, as soon as we passed that bill.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Reflecting on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

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