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

Student suvivors spoke out publicly for first time in aftermath of last month’s shooting in Texas

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced it had reached a framework for enacting modest gun restrictions, such as closing loopholes and increasing background checks for gun purchases by people between 18 and 21, in response to a recent spate of mass shootings that included a massacre…

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced it had reached a framework for enacting modest gun restrictions while beefing up school security and enhancing mental health treatment in response to a recent spate of mass shootings that included a massacre at a Texas elementary school.

Legislation will still require votes of 10 Republicans to pass Senate

A country in mourning, desperate gun control negotiations and the tearful plea of a Hollywood star. Guns are at the front of the agenda, but will anything change this time and what does the divisive issue mean for Biden’s presidency? Oliver Wiseman reports

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday the 18-year-old responsible for the Uvalde school massacre fit an all-too-common profile of mass shooters: alienated young men with mental health issues.

WASHINGTON — It didn’t happen after 13 people were killed at Columbine in 1999, when 26 were gunned down in Newtown in 2012 or when 17 people were murdered at Parkland in 2018.

WASHINGTON — It didn’t happen after 13 people were killed at Columbine in 1999, when 26 were gunned down in Newtown in 2012 or when 17 people were murdered at Parkland in 2018.