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After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks), and on passing new and expanded assault weapon and ...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization which was established in 2013 in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in order to work for gun violence prevention programs and policy making. The main mission of Sandy Hook Promise is to educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in ...
Committee consideration by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress as S. 150 by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on January 24, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the Senate on April 17 ...
On October 11, 2017, ten days after a mass shooting in Las Vegas killed 58 people, a Politico / Morning Consult poll was released. It found that 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws, while 29% opposed them. Support was higher among Democrats (83%) than among independents (58%) and Republicans (49%).
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) was a United States non-profit organization and super PAC that supports gun control. [2][3] The group's stated goal was "to encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership." [4] It typically supported Democratic politicians in elections ...
Shannon Watts (born January 1, 1971) [1] is an American gun violence prevention activist [2] and the founder of Moms Demand Action. [3][4][5][6] Watts has campaigned for a number of gun control candidates across the country, including President Joe Biden. [7] In 2016, Watts became a board member of Emerge America. [8]
Main article: Gun control after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Sandy Hook shooting renewed debate about federal and state assault weapon and large capacity magazine bans, and about universal background checks ( criminal background checks on all gun sales).