Demonstrations calling for better firearms regulations have brought together thousands of people in the United States.

The day after these gatherings, twenty American senators, Republicans and Democrats, announced an agreement on several provisions to better regulate the use of firearms. Minimal measures after recent killings that shocked the country.

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Remove weapons from people deemed dangerous

These measures, which require a supermajority to be approved in the Senate, include an encouragement for states to remove weapons from those deemed dangerous as well as others aimed at mental health and safety in schools, but do not include the essential to the reforms demanded by the Democrats and Joe Biden.

The President of the United States, however, immediately welcomed “advanced” insufficient but “important”considering that it would be the text “most significant gun control vote to pass in Congress in decades”.