‘Lives will be saved’: Biden signs most sweeping gun control law in decades

Bipartisan deal doesn't do everything I want', president says, but will toughen background checks and facilitate red flag' laws

Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

Lives will be saved," the president said at the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims, the president said, Their message to us was to do something. Well today, we did."