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The US House of Representatives has passed a gun package in the wake of the recent mass shootings in the country, but is unlikely to be approved by the evenly-divided Senate.

Become a veterinarian. joining us with more is capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. mitch mcconnell says he's open to policy changes. what can you tell us? >> reporter: look, there is a lot going on here. on the senate side we have continued negotiations on a gun package that can hopefully get 60 votes, the senate and the senate republicans have been the obstacle to passing gun-related legislation going back to the aftermath of sandy hook but negotiators on both sides have been telling me and our team that they are now closer than ever to getting to some kind of deal on gun legislation, e...

On the senate side, there's a lot list of gun related issues they're not talking about, that are not on the table, some focus perhaps on red flag laws, not a federal one, though. school safety, mental health. what else? >> reporter: they're talking about red flag laws incentivizing states to create red flag laws. one thing they're talking about is reworking some of the licensing requirements for people who sell guns but don't perform background checks, so-called hobbyists who sell weapons without background checks. i'm pretty confident at some point there will be a gun package that emerges fro...