Government introduces legislation to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.
"You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn't go out and buy a lot of weapons," says President Biden, hoping to see some bipartisan support over gun culture in US.
US President Joe Biden visits Uvalde to console residents mourning 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down at an elementary school in the small Texas town.
National Rifle Association begins its annual gathering in Houston city, where leaders of powerful gun lobby group are expected to reflect on or deflect blame for mass shooting in Texas school that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Gap between firearm deaths and vehicle-related deaths in America is narrowing, data shows, after improved road safety measures and surge in gun-related deaths.
Senator Chris Murphy makes an impassioned appeal for concrete action to prevent mass shootings, saying, "we're high-income world's deadliest nation and we have loosest gun laws."
Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge backed by National Rifle Association to New York state's restrictions on people carrying concealed handguns outside the home.
New measures include plans for the Justice Department to crack down on self-assembled "ghost guns," and make "stabilising braces" subject to registration under the National Firearms Act.
Since 1968, more Americans have been killed by guns on US soil than the number of Americans killed in all US involved wars, combined.
Local media said at least one suspect was being sought in connection with the mass shooting that took place near a McDonalds fast food restaurant, just blocks away from the Pike Place Market.
Gunman Santino William Legan killed at least three people at a garlic festival in northern California. It was the latest in a long list of mass shootings in the US.
The Crusaders' name and branding has been questioned as to its appropriateness given its potential link to the medieval religious wars between Christians and Muslims, especially in the aftermath of the NZ mosque attacks.
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