The Supreme Court said Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defence,a ruling likely to lead to more people legally armed in cities and beyond.
A Texas official told a hearing that “terrible decisions” were made by the onsite commander and officers who did not have enough training.
The announcement marks the furthest that talks on a gun measure have advanced in Congress since 2013,following the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Miah Cerrillo,11,has recounted the terror of the day a gunman shot her classmates in Uvalde as the US Congress comes under pressure to act on gun violence.
In parts of the country,customers were lining up in the street,desperate to get a firearm before the ban.
That the public has barely raised an eyebrow at Coco Gauff’s on-court message about gun violence shows how normalised we are to athletes making political statements. But the natural endpoint of sport’s embrace of social causes is near.
The suspect wanted to kill the doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery,US authorities have revealed.
As the shooting at Robb Elementary unfolded,trained police officers fell back and cowered,while a killer with a weapon of mass destruction went about his malevolent business for 80 minutes. This is American gun logic,taken to the extreme.
As he departed mass at a local church to meet privately with family members,a crowd of about 100 people began chanting,calling for action on guns.
Questions are mounting over the amount of time it took police officers to enter the school to confront the 18-year-old gunman.
Why do mass shootings keep happening in the US? What does the Second Amendment mean? Who are the NRA? And where is gun regulation reform at today?