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The Brady Bill was more than just waiting periods, and bernie voted against the whole thing
because he wanted some states to be able to have weaker gun laws.
Neither gun violence nor minimum wage are either purely state or purely federal issues. Costs of living vary widely from state to state, just as do levels of gun violence and the conditions that give rise to them.