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Japan votes at Parliament’s Upper House election. - AFP pic

The car believed to carry the body of Japan's late former prime minister Shinzo Abe passes by policemen and media outside the Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture early on July 9, 2022. - (Photo by PHILIP FONG / AFP)

People pay their respects in front of a makeshift memorial outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station, where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot earlier in the day, in Nara on July 8, 2022. - (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

This image taken from video provided by witness Toshiharu Otani and released via Jiji Press shows former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (C) attending an election campaign before giving a speech at Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station square in Nara, while a man (2nd R-behind) suspected of shooting Abe shortly after stands in the background on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Toshiharu Otani / JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Abe has been pronounced dead after he was shot at a campaign event earlier today. (KAZUHIRO NOGI /AFP FILE PIX)

Abe is showing no vital signs after being taken to hospital following an apparent attack at a campaign event in the Nara region, Japanese media reported. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP FILE PIX)

The reforms -- which are almost certain to be rubber-stamped by the House of Representatives on Friday -- fall short of the demands of gun safety advocates and President Joe Biden, but have been hailed as a life-saving breakthrough after almost 30 years of inaction by Congress. AFP pic

Demonstrators join the "March for Our Lives" rally at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Florida, on June 11, 2022. - AFP

People march across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest against gun violence in the March for Our Lives march and rally on June 11, 2022 in New York City. - AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks about the recent mass shootings and urges Congress to pass laws to combat gun violence at the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington DC on June 2, 2022. - AFP