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Senate Votes on Red Flag Law
On late Tuesday afternoon and with less than an hour to review the 80-page bill, the Senate voted on what some call the Red Flag bill draft. Chuck Schumer was calling the vote a bipartisan effort.
The vote was 64-34, with 14 Republican Senators voting in favor of the bill.
Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) claims the legislation would take guns out of the hands of those who are dangerous or break the law but wouldn’t affect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens. Cornyn also posted the full text of the bill on his website.
Today we released text of our bill to make attacks like the one in Uvalde less likely, while protecting the Second Amendment.
I am proud that this mental health and school safety bill places NO NEW RESTRICTIONS on law-abiding gun owners.
⁰https://t.co/JhkJtMBJyu— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 21, 2022
The full text of the original bill can be viewed here: Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
Politico released a summary of the bill as well.
List of the 14 Republican Senators who voted for the bill:
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
- Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
- Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
- Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
- Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.)
It is not known at this time when the bill will be introduced to Congress, but according to NPR, “President Biden has encouraged Congress to pass the bill without delay.”
Gun Owners of America put out an example of how a Red Flag could operate:
