Gun legislation

The U.S. men’s national soccer team used its platform to demand that Congress do something about gun violence in the United States.

You’re applying to college, and you’ve got your checklist: Academics. Dorms. Sports. Clubs. Location. Now you might want to add guns. Where are they allowed on campus? Where are they banned? Regulations vary widely by state.

Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill that President Joe Biden signed on Saturday.

President Biden signed a bipartisan gun measure on Saturday, saying “Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved.” Most of its $13 billion cost will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools.

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists. But some public defenders, often allies of progressive activists, have praised the court’s ruling, saying gun-permitting rules like New York’s have long been a license for racial discrimination.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week.

The deal, negotiated by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, could be the most significant federal action on gun violence in nearly three decades

Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month’s mass shootings, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, discussed comprise as Congress tries to find a way to better protect the country’s schools.

Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., showed a discrepancy in federal regulation by comparing how one child’s death on a Peloton treadmill led to a recall, while hundreds of children dying from guns does not.

Partisan positions were clear at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” an omnibus gun control bill backed by Democrats that Republicans largely oppose.

The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.