US Gun Control

US President Joe Biden has renewed his call to ban assault weapons

Payment processor Visa Inc said it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops. It's a major win for gun control advocates who say it will help better track suspicious surges of gun sales that could be a prelude to a mass shooting. But gun rights advocates have argued that step would unfairly segregate legal gun sales when most sales do not lead to mass shootings. Visa late Saturday said it would adopt the International Organization for Standardization's new merchant code for gun sales, which was announced on Friday. Until Friday, gun store sales were considered general merchandise. Visa's adoption is significant as the largest payment network, and will likely add pressure for Mastercard and American Express to adopt the code as well. Gun control advocates had gotten significant wins on this front in recent weeks. New York City officials and pension funds had pressured the ISO and banks to adopt this code. Two of the country's largest public pension funds, in Califor

A Texas Judge struck down a Texas law that prohibits adults under 21 from carrying a handgun outside the home, on the grounds that the restriction violated the second amendment

The suspected gunman in a July 4 parade shooting in Illinois was charged with seven counts of first degree murder for allegedly carrying out the attack that left seven people dead

New York lawmakers plan to vote Thursday on legislation seeking to limit the proliferation of firearms in public after the Supreme Court gutted the state's century-old handgun licensing law. The state is overhauling its rules for carrying guns after the court decided that ordinary citizens had a right to arm themselves in public for self-defense, something the state limited in the past mostly to people working in law enforcement or security. New rules being rushed through an emergency session of the Legislature would allow many more gun owners to apply for a license to carry a concealed weapon, but would seek to set new restrictions on where firearms can be carried. One provision, proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, would ban people from carrying firearms into places of business unless owners put up signage saying guns are welcome. New York would be the first state to pass such a rule, according to David Pucino, deputy chief counsel at Giffords Law Center. In states where .

Lives will be saved, he said at the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims, the president said, Their message to us was to do something. Well today, we did.

The landmark court ruling and Senate action on gun safety illustrate the deep divide over firearms in the United States

The vote came the same day the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required people to show a special need to carry a handgun in public

The decision represents the court's most important statement on gun rights in more than a decade

The decision, the high court's first major gun decision in more than a decade, was 6-3 with the court's conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent

The new bill aims to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health funding

The outline of a bipartisan Senate agreement to rein in gun violence has no game-changing steps banning the deadliest firearms

Senate bargainers announced a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs

If the accord leads to the enactment of legislation, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress

Thousands of protestors are expected to rally in Washington, DC, Saturday and in separate demonstrations around the country as part of a renewed push for nationwide gun control

New Yorkers under age 21 will be prohibited from buying semiautomatic rifles under a new law signed Monday by Gov Kathy Hochul, making the state among the first to enact a major gun control

The new legislation has been met with opposition from many Republicans, who argue that the gun limitations would "inconvenience law-abiding firearms owners

The three people died outside the Cornerstone Church, a megachurch on the outskirts of Ames, according to the Story County Sheriff's Office

Joe Biden delivered a plea to Congress to act on gun control in an address to the nation, calling on lawmakers to restore limits on the sale of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines

The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday to advance legislation that would raise the age limit for purchasing certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21