From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is a daily.

Today, we say more than enough. We say more than enough.

When President Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill into law a little over a week ago,

he heralded it as the most significant federal attempt to reduce gun violence in 30 years.

We are doing something consequential.

Now and in the wake of yet another mass shooting, the question is, will it actually work?

My colleague, Cheryl Gastelberg, has been trying to figure that out.

It's Tuesday, July 5th.

Cheryl, before the Supreme Court and the January 6th Committee turned our worlds upside down,

you had been tracking this gun legislation very closely as it worked its way from a bipartisan group of lawmakers

to passage in the Senate, then in the House, and eventually to the President's desk where he signed it into law.

And you write about health policy and politics for the time.

So as all of that was happening, how were you thinking about this legislation and how were you evaluating it?

So Michael, I wanted to know about the evidence.

There's a body of research out there, gun violence research, and I wanted to know what these researchers were thinking about this bill,

and whether it was supported by any of their studies.

So I started calling around, and some of these folks I've known for a very long time, some I didn't know,

and I just started asking them, what do you think of this bill? What do you think of these provisions?

And these people are academics, but their interest is not purely academic.

They really want to use the science to make policy.

And a lot of them told me that while the bill is informed by evidence, it's only partly informed by evidence.

And some of it isn't supported by evidence at all.

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