Senate clears path for final passage of bipartisan gun bill

The bipartisan Senate gun bill Thursday cleared a major procedural vote 65-34, setting up a vote on final passage likely later Thursday or early Friday. 

The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, comes in the wake of several recent mass shootings. One at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was the major driver behind the bipartisan effort. 

"This is an incredibly important day in the United States Senate. Final passage will be either later today or early tomorrow, and we will be well on our way to saving 1000s of lives in this country," Murphy said Thursday. "30 years Congress has done nothing to try to address the epidemic of school shootings and murders and suicides in this country. And while this doesn't do everything we need to do. This is a way that we show it's possible to break the logjam."