The US Senate has passed a gun control bill, the most significant firearms legislation in nearly thirty years.
Fifteen Republicans joined the Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress to approve the measure by sixty-five votes to thirty-three.
It follows mass shootings last month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left thirty-one people dead.
The bill will now have to pass in the House of Representatives before President Biden can sign it into