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The streets nationwide on saturday, demanding action. their agreement, the senate agreement would create incentives to states to implement red flag rules and background checks for meeting to 21. increase funding for school safety, mental health, telehealth and slapped new penalties on school -- purchasing firearms. this marks a significant step towards breaking a 30-year impasse on federal gun reforms. but to call the steel narrow might be the understatement. this is not a bill or legislation. at this point it's a set of principles. the devil will ever be in the details. so far, it does not fo...

The relatively young age of most mass shooters has ignited conversations about the minimum legal age for purchasing firearms.

They got that done. so these lawmakers are going to continue to get these questions about possibly raising the age limit for purchasing firearms as well. linsey? >> raising the age certainly keeps coming up here. mary alice, thank you. we turn now to the war in ukraine. tonight russian forces are pounding ukrainian troops in the east and making some gains. these images show a missile strike on a plant. the manager says there were no military targets nearby. and this weekend president zelenskyy making a rare appearance outside the capital, inspecting the destruction in kharkiv. abc's thomas s...

Purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. an assault weapon is a weapon of war. with no place -- no place in a civil society. >> reporter: now, the vice president also called for enhanced background checks had it comes to purchasing firearms. she made those remarks as she was leaving buffalo after attending the funeral of ruth whitfield, the oldest person to die in that buffalo shooting just two weeks ago. boris? >> jasmine wright, from wilmington, delaware, thank you. when president biden arrives here in uvalde, he's going to find a community still mired in grief, still processing the...

We've worked in congress to have these systems in the individual states improved. the act that was passed during the trump administration to try to get the states to get their records up to snuff. and the reality is we're not. >> we're still having mass shootings. >> if they don't put the system in the system there are background checks and instances where shooter -- >> over and over and over. we have these mass shootings. isn't it finally time to say that your way doesn't work? it just doesn't work. >> the way we're doing it doesn't work but the way we're not making it work is making the back...