gun control

The Mexican government filed a civil lawsuit against several U.S. gun manufacturers, alleging that they contribute to illegal gun trafficking to Mexico. 

A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Air Force is largely responsible for a 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church for failing to report the shooter’s criminal history. 

After speaking with gun safety experts, state and local leaders on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his five-part strategy to curb the spike in gun violence, including bolstering background check protocols, investing in community violence interventions and cracking down on gun dealers who skirt gun laws. “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if...

President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are set to address the administration’s gun crime prevention strategy in a speech on Wednesday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at the scene of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Jose, Calif., to condemn the deaths of 8 victims at a workplace murder-suicide. “Pick a state. And here we are, in the United States of America, where we’re experiencing something that is not experienced anywhere else in the world. There’s a sameness to this.”

Former Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo explains why police departments across the country do not support the Texas “constitutional carry” gun bill.

President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass gun control measures after a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Ind., on Friday, killing 8 and injuring several others.

On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a memorial on the National Mall featuring 40,000 flowers that represent the Americans who die from gun violence each year.

President Joe Biden is ordering a half-dozen executive actions aimed at addressing what he calls an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America

Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden

Biden’s executive actions include directing the DOJ to craft a rule addressing the spread of “ghost guns” and publish model red-flag legislation for states.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden noted that gun violence kills 106 people every day in this country and costs the nation $280 billion a year.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a series of executive actions that would both limit self-assembled “ghost guns” and make it easier to flag people who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase a firearm.

NBC Bay Area’s Janelle Wang talks with White House press secretary Jen Psaki about the COVID-19 vaccine supply coming to California, violence against Asian Americans and gun control.

The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shootings bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check, and he also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t use in the attack that killed 10 people this week, authorities and the gun store owner said Friday. Investigators are working to determine the motive for the shooting,…

A possible expansion of gun rights is on the Supreme Court’s agenda, days after mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia

Authorities say police have arrested a man who walked into an Atlanta grocery store with five guns and body armor, just days after the mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket.

There were no widely covered mass shootings that occurred in public during the pandemic, then suddenly, mass-casualty incidents in Atlanta, GA and Boulder, CO this month. Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action tells LX News she’s worried about violence when more schools reopen.

Senate Democrats say they are pushing toward a vote on expanded gun control measures as the nation reels from it its second mass shooting in a week

President Joe Biden urged members of Congress to “once again” pass legislation banning assault weapons and closing background check loopholes after a shooting in Boulder, Colo., killed 10 people.