gun control

After speaking with gun safety experts, state and local leaders on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his five-part strategy to curb the spike in gun violence, including bolstering background check protocols, investing in community violence interventions and cracking down on gun dealers who skirt gun laws. “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if...

President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are set to address the administration’s gun crime prevention strategy in a speech on Wednesday.

The gun control debate will get greater traction Wednesday as President Joe Biden outlines his strategy to address a surge in violent gun crimes. Kris Sanchez reports.

The gun control debate will get greater traction Wednesday as President Joe Biden outlines his strategy to address a surge in violent gun crimes.

San Jose unanimously passed a controversial gun reform proposal — stores have to video-record all firearm purchases. This comes at a vulnerable time for the city. Raj Mathai spoke with Joe Cotchett, a prominent Bay Area lawyer and legal advisor to Mayor Sam Liccardo, and Brian Wang, a gun instructor, for their input.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo outlined a controversial plan Tuesday that he believes will help curb gun violence. The 10-point proposal includes a requirement that gun sellers video record every sale — something no city has ever tried to do before.

San Jose city leaders late Tuesday approved sweeping gun control measures first proposed in 2019 after the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting and met with renewed urgency after a May 26 mass shooting at a San Jose VTA rail yard.

San Jose city leaders late Tuesday approved sweeping gun control measures first proposed in 2019 after the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting and met with renewed urgency after a May 26 mass shooting at a San Jose VTA rail yard. Sharon Katsuda reports.

San Jose city leaders late Tuesday approved sweeping gun control measures first proposed in 2019 after the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting and met with renewed urgency after a May 26 mass shooting at a San Jose VTA rail yard. Sharon Katsuda reports.

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Stanford Professor Priya Satia, whose work includes historical and cultural research on guns, about the newly proposed gun control ordinance.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo outlined a controversial plan that he believes will help curb gun violence. Thom Jensen reports.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned more than 23,598 people in California are prohibited from owning guns, yet still own firearms.

California has the country’s strictest gun laws. But that wasn’t enough to stop the VTA yard shooting. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned more than 23,598 people in California are prohibited from owning guns, yet still own firearms. Bigad Shaban reports.

California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at the scene of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Jose, Calif., to condemn the deaths of 8 victims at a workplace murder-suicide. “Pick a state. And here we are, in the United States of America, where we’re experiencing something that is not experienced anywhere else in the world. There’s a sameness to this.”

Former Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo explains why police departments across the country do not support the Texas “constitutional carry” gun bill.

President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass gun control measures after a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Ind., on Friday, killing 8 and injuring several others.

On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a memorial on the National Mall featuring 40,000 flowers that represent the Americans who die from gun violence each year.

President Joe Biden is ordering a half-dozen executive actions aimed at addressing what he calls an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America

Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden

Hannah Shearer, litigation director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, joins NBC Bay Area to talk about President Joe Biden’s executive actions on gun control.