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t. e. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is a United States federal law, passed during the 117th United States Congress. It implemented several changes to the mental health system, school safety programs, and gun control laws. Gun control laws in the bill include extended background checks for firearm purchasers under the age of 21 ...
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 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.
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 ...
Less than two years after President Joe Biden signed into law the Safer Communities Act, bipartisan legislation expanding background checks for gun sales and cracking down on illegal trafficking ...
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 ...
The Senate voted to advance bipartisan gun legislation on Tuesday, with hopes of passing it prior to the July 4 recess. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus joined 14 Republicans in moving the ...