The Latest Breaking News from Gun Control

President highlights administration’s efforts to reduce gun violence in wake of mass shootings

Executive order aiming to expand firearm background checks signed amid ongoing challenge of passing US gun control laws.

The senator, a leading force in the Democratic push for gun control, warns the US is ‘headed towards a very dangerous place’

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Despite a growing sense of urgency to address gun violence in the state’s two largest cities and a mass shooting at a high school last fall, the Missouri General Assembly has been slow to pursue any gun reforms.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University student Troy Forbush called his mother on the night of Feb. 13 at 8:18 p.m. from Berkey Hall and told her that he had been shot.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will travel to California on Monday for a multi-day visit that will include meetings with the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom in San Diego and a stop in Monterey Park, the site of one of two mass shootings that rocked California in January.

The president and his predecessor both tried to impose gun control by executive fiat.

LANSING, Mich. — Marco Diaz-Munoz, an assistant professor at Michigan State University whose classroom was attacked by a gunman, encouraged Michigan lawmakers Thursday to do the "right thing" and the "humane thing" by enacting new gun control measures.

Following two high-profile mass shootings in California, the majority of voters surveyed in a new statewide poll said they worry that gun violence will affect them or someone close to them.