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A group of senators from the upper house of US have reached a breakthrough agreement on proposed gun safety laws, following a spate of mass shootings in recent weeks.

Measures include tougher background checks for gun buyers under the age of twenty-one and moves to stop people buying guns for others who are restricted from purchasing them. The proposals fall short of changes demanded by President Biden, but he's welcomed the agreement nonetheless.

Lonnie Phillips is the co-founder of Survivors Empowered, and has travelled to over 20 mass shooting sites in the US in the past decade after his stepdaughter was one of 12 people killed in a shooting at a cinema in Colorado, in 2012.

He shared his thoughts about the new proposed gun laws, saying "It would help, but it is so insufficient, I want background checks on all gun purchases, not just guns purchased from a licensed firearms dealer, which is the law now. Forty percent of all the guns sold in America are guns purchased from gun shows, and over the internet. Sales with no background checks. So, I want safe storage laws that would prevent children from killing children with their parent's gun's, I mean there's so many of those that go on every year. The proposals offered by this group of senators is insufficient for the uniquely American gun problem".

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