Bipartisan Gun Talks Stall as Senators Disagree on Details
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Bipartisan gun safety negotiations stalled on Thursday as senators worked to iron out the details of the full legislation.
A key disagreement among the bipartisan negotiators involves what kinds of relationships count towards domestic violence; a provision in the bipartisan framework would expand gun restrictions for domestic abusers beyond those who are married to, live with or had a child with the victim. Senators also disagreed on whether states that don’t have red flag laws should be able to use the bill’s grant money, earmarked for implementing red flag programs, for other purposes.
Senators ended negotiations on Thursday, and many left Washington, D.C. for the weekend. Top Republican negotiator Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who was booed by Texas Republicans on Friday over his role in the talks, tweeted Thursday that “indecision and delay” jeopardized the odds of a bill passing. Cornyn’s Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), said the negotiations were “difficult” and carried “political risk to both sides,” adding, “we're close enough that we should be able to get there.”
While coverage of the gun talks was widespread and balanced across the spectrum, coverage framing the talks as “stalled” was less common in right-rated outlets. Outlets across the spectrum prominently featured coverage of Cornyn getting booed on Friday.
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