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WASHINGTON -- Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to recent mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.

A massacre at a school in Texas has spurred a ballot initiative in Oregon that would require permits to purchase firearms and ban large-capacity magazines. Oregon is the only state in America with a gun safety initiative under way for the November ballot, but one of its sponsors says it “can start to build hope across the nation for others to do the same.”

On June 2, President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he demanded that Congress enact a gun ban and other severe gun control measures.

A massacre at a school in Texas has spurred a ballot initiative in Oregon that would require permits to purchase firearms and ban large-capacity magazines

Anti-gun politicians in Providence moved one step closer to adopting the most drastic gun ban in Rhode Island history.

This week, Kansas Attorney General and candidate for Governor, Derek Schmidt, announced a pro-gun public safety plan.

Anti-gun, Progressive politicians bent on using tragedy to secure their wishlist of gun bans are pressing hard in Providence, and legislative leaders are poised to cave.

The number of volunteer signature-gatherers for the Oregon ballot initiative has doubled to 1,200 in the wake of the horrific massacre in Uvalde, Texas.

Recent mass shootings have given the Oregon ballot initiative huge momentum, with the number of volunteers doubling to 1,200 and signatures increasing exponentially

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When Raevahnna Richardson spotted a woman standing outside a library in Salem, Oregon, gathering signatures for a gun-safety initiative, she made a beeline to her and added her name.