Jul 11 WATCH: President Biden celebrates new bipartisan firearm legislation amid recent shootings By Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Joe Biden welcomed a crowd to the White House lawn Monday to showcase a new law meant to reduce gun violence, celebrating “real progress” after years of inaction. Continue reading
Jul 02 New York lawmakers overhaul handgun rules after Supreme Court decision By Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press The measure, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul after passing both chambers by wide margins, is almost sure to draw more legal challenges from gun rights advocates who say the state is still putting too many restrictions on who can get… Continue reading
Jun 24 WATCH: House sends gun violence legislation to Biden By Alan Fram, Associated Press The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists. Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 3:51 Supreme Court strikes down a New York gun restriction law amid national debate on firearms By John Yang, Harry Zahn The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down a New York handgun law, expanding the constitutional right to carry a gun outside the home. The ruling has far-reaching implications across the country, and comes as recent mass shootings have renewed the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Supreme Court strikes down New York law restricting guns outside the home, with implications for other states By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press In major ruling for gun rights, the Supreme Court has struck down a New York gun law in a ruling expected to directly impact half a dozen other populous states. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 5:33 Senators announce bipartisan deal on gun safety legislation in the wake of mass shootings Congress appears poised to deliver the biggest overhaul to the nation’s gun laws in nearly three decades. It’s a development few observers believed possible, even as mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Uvalde shook the country. Congressional correspondent Lisa… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch 6:19 Top Texas law enforcement official castigates Uvalde police response to school shooting Texas' top state law enforcement official on Tuesday called the police response to the Uvalde school massacre an "abject failure." Testifying at a state Senate hearing, Col. Steve McCraw said police could have stopped the gunman within 3 minutes, but… Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch 5:46 What the nation's largest teachers union thinks about gun violence in schools If Congress approves a bipartisan agreement on guns and school safety, it would provide new resources to try and prevent shootings like the massacre in Uvalde. That would likely mean new money for mental health care, violence prevention and training… Continue watching
Jun 14 Series of shootings targeting young people in New Orleans leave leaders and teens asking: When will it stop? By Roby Chavez In a nation where adolescents under 19 were more likely to die from a gun-related injury in 2020 than a car accident, New Orleans ranks among the worst cities for firearm death. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch 8:01 What research says about identifying people who might commit mass shootings By William Brangham, Sam Lane Even if the proposed framework for gun safety legislation is signed into law, the U.S. will likely still struggle with far too many mass shootings. Researchers are trying to better understand what's behind these shootings. Dr. Jillian Peterson and Dr. Continue watching