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It was the first federal gun control legislation enacted in 28 years. [1] The bill was introduced by Senator Marco Rubio (R–FL) on October 5, 2021, as an unrelated bill, then modified by an amendment by Senator Chris Murphy (D–CT) on June 21, 2022, and signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25, 2022.
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is an office of the White House tasked with carrying out the president's executive orders on gun violence prevention. It was first announced on September 21, 2023, with Vice President Kamala Harris being announced as the supervisor of the office, Stefanie Feldman as director, and Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox as deputy directors.
Committee consideration by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 ( AWB 2013) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress as S. 150 by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on January 24, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the Senate on April 17 ...
The Biden administration is proposing a rule to eliminate the so-called gun-show loophole — one of the biggest attempts to regulate the sale of firearms in years. Biden admin proposes regulation ...
President Joe Biden will address a major gun violence prevention conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, nearly two years after he signed the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades.
It will likely face legal challenges, though the administration argues the rule will hold up in court by using a provision of the sweeping gun control law Congress passed in 2022.
About 7 in 10 college-educated women who voted in the 2022 midterm elections supported stricter gun control laws, although less than 1 in 10 named it as the top problem facing the country ...
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks), and on passing new and expanded assault weapon and ...