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Nashville school shooting: Who was the transgender woman who killed 6, including 9-year-old pupils?
Fp Explainers •In a deadly attack at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, a 28-year-old killed three nine-year-old pupils and three adults, including the head of the institute. Audrey Hale, who identified as a transgender woman, was a former student at the school. Hale was shot dead by the police
'Here to mourn with you, pray with you': US President Biden meets families of mass shooting victims, toughens gun rules
•Traveling to the Asian American enclave of Monterey Park neighboring Los Angeles, Biden empathized with survivors of a January 21 mass shooting that killed 11 people
Biden to issue order to strengthen gun background checks
•Biden’s rhetoric has only grown stronger around guns — he routinely calls for banning so-called assault weapons in his speeches — and Democrats didn’t push such a vocal gun-control platform even during the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president
US judge rules Missouri state gun law is unconstitutional
•US District Judge Brian Wimes in Jefferson City, Missouri, said the state's Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the US Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws
Record 6,542 guns intercepted at US airport security in 2022
•The number — roughly 18 per day — was an all-time high for guns intercepted at US airports, and is sparking concern at a time when more Americans are armed.
Dissatisfaction with US gun laws hits new high: Poll
Fp Staff •Amid a recent string of mass shootings affecting the country, Americans’ dissatisfaction with US gun laws has risen to 63 per cent, an increase of seven points over the past year, according to a new poll.
Shooting at Memphis library leaves an officer wounded, 1 dead
•Officers were called to the Poplar-White Station Public Library around 12:30 pm, where they encountered a man who had been the subject of a trespassing call in the same neighborhood about thirty minutes earlier
California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough?
Fp Explainers •A gunman went on a rampage in California’s Monterey Park on Sunday, killing 10 people during Chinese New Year celebrations. This is despite the state having some of the strictest gun laws in the US including a ban on semi-automatic rifles and restrictions on the sale of high-capacity magazines
US Supreme Court lets New York enforce gun law during lawsuit
•New York lawmakers rewrote the state’s handgun laws over the summer after a June Supreme Court ruling invalidated New York’s old system for granting permits to carry handguns outside the home
The Year of Shock: From the Shraddha Walkar murder to Shinzo Abe’s assassination, the news that horrified us
Fp Explainers •Amid war and civic unrest, the year delivered some shocking news. The most horrific of crimes were the mass graves in Ukraine, the gory murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala, and the assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe