(The recent supreme court ruling shows that we have a great need to update the second amendment. When it was written the most advanced firearm was a single shot flint lock, which took 20 to 30 seconds to reload. Now it is legal to guy funs that can kill 20 to 30 people in just one minute.)

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the U.S. Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defense.

The landmark court ruling and Senate action on gun safety illustrate the deep divide over firearms in the United States, weeks after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, killed more than 30 people, including 19 children. read more