President Biden met Tuesday with a Democratic senator leading negotiations on gun control legislation — as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would allow more time for both parties to come to an agreement.Two weeks after 19 elementary school students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, there is no sign of any legislative response to the tragedy. House Democrats have pitched a package of bills — including proposals to raise the legal age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, outlaw high-capacity magazines, strengthen gun storage requirements and combat so-called “ghost guns” — that are doomed to fail in the Senate due to unanimous Republican opposition.
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