Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tells Salon that the bipartisan gun safety legislation, which he was instrumental in getting passed in 2022, is having an impact. "A lot of young buyers who were in crisis who were going to buy a weapon who no doubt were going to use that weapon to either kill themselves or to kill others, have been stopped from getting that weapon," Sen. Murphy told Salon's Dean Obeidallah. "Lives that have been undoubtedly saved already by this legislation." Illegal guns are also an increasing problem, Murphy insists. "You're just trying at this point to stop the problem from getting even worse."