The US Senate filibustered a variety of amendments to the gun control bill, though a couple other amendments seem cleared for a vote.
The bill is S. 649, the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013. Click here to find the bill on Thomas.
The NYT has a graphic that walks through the amendments.
The ones that failed would have expanded background checks for online sales and guns shows and substituted checks for enforcement mechanisms for the mentally ill, banned assault weapons and limited the size of magazines, made straw pruchases a federal crime, mandated that concealed firearms licenses from any state be accepted in all states, and ensure that only judges could deem veterans unfit to own a gun due to mental incompetence.
The two that passed today are meant to improve mental health programs and impose penalties on states for releasing gun ownership data.
