Everytown launched a campaign calling on colleges and universities across the country to divest from the gun industry until they take accountability for their actions.

Many of the current laws were enacted in the past several years.

A new federal lawsuit contends that Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the press about mass shootings from Monterey Park, California.

The Gun Violence Archive shows that there have been more mass shootings than days in 2023 so far.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has asked a state appellate court to dismiss a temporary restraining order on Illinois’ new ban on semiautomatic weapons

Parents, teachers and community members shared frustrations with community leaders after the third shooting on Newport News school grounds in the last 18 months.

A 14-year-old girl is accused of shooting and killing an 11-year-old bystander after she was allegedly aiming at someone else, according to police.

For Illinois, the ban came six months after a gunman wielding a semiautomatic rifle shot and killed seven people at a 4th of July parade in a Chicago suburb.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the bill into law after the House passed an amended version on Tuesday.

An Oregon judge is continuing to freeze the part of a new, voter-approved gun safety measure that requires a completed criminal background check before a gun can be sold or transferred

Students at a Chicago high school are planning a classroom walkout Monday afternoon to protest gun violence just days after a shooting near their campus.

An Oregon judge has handed guns rights advocates a victory and placed a new, voter-approved ban on high-capacity magazines on hold until questions about its constitutionality can be decided

Voters in Oregon passed one of the nation's toughest gun control laws, but the new permit-to-purchase mandate is facing a legal challenge with days to go before it takes effect

The funeral was for a woman who was fatally shot earlier this month.

"I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons," the president said Thursday.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons

A gun rights group, sheriff and gun store owner filed motion in federal court.

2021 saw the highest jump in untraceable firearms to date, officials said.

Body bags representing those killed by guns were placed on the National Mall.

The Supreme Court has again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns

Permitless carry laws in states including Kentucky, Idaho and Texas are creating a dilemma for police officers working the streets: They now have to decide, sometimes in seconds, if someone with the right to carry a gun is a danger

The European Union wants to tighten laws governing the trade and transport of guns to keep illicit firearms out of the hands of criminal gangs

After the Uvalde school massacre, a former Marine decided to turn in his AR-15 and handgun to local police.

Lifelong gun owners speak on AR-15s: Designed to do ‘damage’

Henry "Michael" Dwight Williams pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He sold his gun to a man who held four people hostage in a synagogue.

The designation comes as the state plans to appeal a federal court's ruling striking down portions of its new gun law.

New York City's Times Square officially becomes a gun-free zone after Mayor Eric Adams signs new legislation.

ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas reports on efforts to drive down gun violence in Chicago on “This Week.”

New York's attorney general has appealed a federal judge's ruling that halted key provisions of the state's new rules on guns

The ruling is a temporary victory for six New York residents who said the new law is just as restrictive – and unconstitutional – as the one the Supreme Court overturned.

The government's ban on devices that allow a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger will remain.

Survivors and family members from several mass shootings gathered on Capitol Hill to advocate for a federal assault weapons ban.

Banning someone from buying a gun while under felony indictment goes against their Second Amendment right to bear arms, a federal judge in Texas ruled Monday

The number of gun suicides increased 11% over the past decade, according to researchers from New York University and Everytown for Gun Safety

Michele Gay, the mother of a Sandy Hook victims discusses her newfound purpose to ensure schools across the country are informed in keeping students safe.

Times Square, and dozens of parks, churches and theaters are now "gun-free" zones as the state’s sweeping new gun law takes effect.

New York is adjusting to a new reality for gun possession as the state law prompted by a Supreme Court decision in June goes into effect Thursday.

New York is adjusting to a new reality for gun possession as the state law prompted by a Supreme Court decision in June goes into effect Thursday.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is one of the leading voices on cracking down on the use of ghost guns. He joins “GMA3” to discuss the new federal regulations on ghost guns.

The New York Council's Public Safety Committee is debating which parts of Times Square will be off limits for concealed guns.

The New York City Council is holding a committee hearing on the Times Square area being restricted from concealed carry.

Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri, who is the co-chair of “Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” discusses holding arms manufacturers accountable.

One company is using fingerprint technology to make firearms safer.

Mayor Sylvester Turner spoke to ABC News’ “GMA3” about engaging his community to join the fight against gun violence.

The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew reviews the results of our most recent poll with Ipsos on crime and gun violence.

The district plans to keep the weapons in safes for student resource officers to use if a gunman enters a Madison County school.

The recently passed federal gun legislation most likely would not have prevented the Highland Park July 4 shooting -- but it can still save lives, experts tell ABC News.

The federal gun safety proposal announced last week might not have prevented the Uvalde shooting had it already been in place, experts tell ABC News.

The last-minute vote was announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday morning.