U.S. Senate advances Cornyn-backed bipartisan gun legislation
Exactly four weeks after a teenage gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle massacred 19 elementary schoolers and two teachers in Uvalde, the U.S. Senate voted 64-34 Tuesday night to advance a bipartisan compromise that, if enacted, would become the first major legislation on gun safety since 1994.
The legislation does not restrict any rights of existing gun owners—a nonstarter for Senate…