THEY DID IT!!! After YEARS of pushing and advocating for this bill, Maryland

Moms Demand just helped pass a new law requiring background checks on ALL gun sales. Until now, long guns - including semiautomatic rifles - didn’t require a background check.

THEY DID IT!!! After YEARS of pushing and advocating for this bill, Maryland @MomsDemand just helped pass a new law requiring background checks on ALL gun sales. Until now, long guns - including semiautomatic rifles - didn’t require a background check. #mdga2021 #mdpolitics pic.twitter.com/1pnHFqyClj

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 11, 2021

Orange, California, shooting leaves 4 dead, 2 wounded at business complex; suspect in custody: report

A suspect shot by police and one of the suspect's victims were both in critical condition early Thursday in Southern California after a shooting at a business complex that killed four people, investigators said.

A child was among the dead in the shooting, which unfolded in Orange, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, police said.

The suspect was in custody, but was transported to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds, after reportedly exchanging shots with arriving officers, the Orange County Register reported. 

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'Why does this keep happening?' Mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta expose loopholes, weaknesses in gun laws

WASHINGTON – Back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado underscore how loopholes and weak restrictions in gun laws enabled both suspects to get quick access to their weapons of choice in attacks that left 18 people dead. The shootings in March have thrust the issue of gun violence back into the national spotlight – and with it, calls for changes in gun requirements.

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An Instacart shopper believed he heard someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. Police arrested a man with 6 guns

An Instacart shopper who entered an Atlanta supermarket bathroom this week told police he saw an AR-15 style rifle and heard what he believed was the sound of someone loading guns in a bathroom stall.

An Instacart shopper at an Atlanta supermarket told police he heard what he believed was the sound of someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. Then a suspect was arrested as he exited the bathroom — with six guns in his possession. https://t.co/l0OgZFwvif

— CNN (@CNN) March 26, 2021

Biden pushes House-passed gun reforms in the wake of Colorado mass shooting

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he would do everything in his power to keep Americans safe following the latest mass shooting in Colorado and pushed a pair of House-passed gun reforms, including a universal background checks measure and an assault weapons ban.

President Biden makes a push for gun control legislation, including universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. https://t.co/aNtAXaigCY

— CNN (@CNN) March 23, 2021