Gun violence has plagued America for centuries. More than 100 Americans are killed every day by guns. WION's Palki Sharma travelled through Washington D.C. to find out why America has failed to rein in gun terror. Here's a Ground Report.

Gravitas US Edition: Gun Terror in America: A WION Ground Report

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced new emergency measures to fight gun violence. He has also declared gun violence 'a disaster emergency'.

Andrew Cuomo announces new law against gun violence amid rising crimes in New York

Andrew Cuomo announces emergency measures against gun violence

Florida Police officers shot a 14-year-old girl on Tuesday night after she and a 12-year-old boy opened fire on deputies. The girl was shot in the abdomen and the arm and is in stable condition, while the boy had surrendered and was not injured. The sheriff's office has released the videos.

Florida: 12 & 14-year-olds involved in shootout with police

14-year-old girl & 12-year-old boy were involved in a shootout with 8 cops in Florida. Sheriff's office says, kids broke into a house, found guns & opened fire on police. The girl was shot in the abdomen & arm but is stable after surgery. Sheriff's office has released the videos.

Florida: 2 armed teenagers in shootout with 8 deputies

In another case of gun violence, a firefighter shot his colleague at Los Angeles County fire station in Agua Dulce. The attacker was an off-duty firefighter who fatally shot his colleague, then injured the fire captain, and ran back home where he hid for hours, before setting the house on fire.

Los Angeles County shooting: One firefighter dead, another wounded

At least two people have been declared dead and 12 injured after a gunman opened fire at a house party in South Jersey. On Saturday night, the local police received calls for help to a house in Fairfield Township near Philadelphia.

New Jersey: At least 2 dead, 12 injured after mass shooting at house party

A shooting took place in New York’s famous and busiest Times Square, injuring a four-year-old girl and two women. The shooting took place a little before 5 pm (local time) at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 44th Street, an NYPD spokesperson told AFP.

Shooting at New York Times Square injures 3, including a child

The US Justice Department has announced plans to tighten the firearm regulations, especially on home-assembled, untraceable ‘ghost guns’. As per the data, the department has recovered more than 23,000 firearms without a serial number, and which are usually made from kits bought online or even from parts printed on 3D printing.

Biden enforces stricter rules against 'ghost guns' in US

A sixth-grade girl pulled a handgun from a backpack at her eastern Idaho school on Thursday and opened fire, hitting two fellow students and a member of school staff and inflicting non-life-threatening injuries on them, officials said.

Girl in 6th grade detained after Idaho school shooting injures 3

Among eight people who were killed at a shooting in FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday included four people belonging to the Sikh community. The three women and one men were identified by a community leader on Friday.

Four Sikhs among eight victims of FedEx facility shooting in Indianapolis: Report

President Joe Biden pledged to “do more” to address gun violence and implored Congress to act after a mass shooting in Indianapolis left eight people dead. But his administration, scrambling to respond to a new cycle of violence, rejected calls to appoint a gun czar to more forcefully confront the crisis.

Biden vows to ‘do more’ to end gun violence but rejects calls to appoint a czar

US President Joe Biden's administration has unveiled initial actions to address the increasing gun violence within the nation. The US government has come up with six initial actions to curb gun violence and Biden announced moves that are designed to revamp the federal gun policy.

US President Joe Biden introduces limited gun control measures

US President Joe Biden will soon be launching measures to curb the increasing gun violence in the country, with a special focus on ‘ghost guns’. Ghost gun is a collective term used to refer to homemade firearms assembled or improvised from parts often bought online and lacking commercial serial numbers.

Biden's order to target 'ghost guns' in reforms against increasing gun violence

WASHINGTON — Dr. Bindi J. Naik-Mathuria, a pediatric trauma surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital who grew tired of seeing toddlers die of gunshot wounds, has a $684,000 federal grant to track every gun-related death and injury in Houston.

Can new gun violence research find a path around the political stalemate?

Hours after shootings at three different spas and massage parlors killing six Asian women, the US President Joe Biden has condemned violence against Asian Americans.

Violence against Asian Americans 'very troublesome', says Biden after Atlanta shootings

Police in Florida`s Miami-Dade County said late on Sunday that they were investigating two separate shootings in which 12 people were wounded. The first shooting occurred in Little River Park at 7:07 p.

Two shootings in Florida's Miami-Dade County leave 12 wounded

Chicago marches against gun violence after an alarming increase in crime

Three years after a man went on a shooting spree in Las Vegas, a US court has approved a settlement of $800 million for the victims and their families. In 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a huge crowd on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino with high-powered rifles.

An $800 mn settlement approved for Las Vegas mass shooting

A grand jury considering the March killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday voted to indict at least one of three white police officers for wanton endangerment, a judge said.

Kentucky grand jury indicts at least one of three officers in Breonna Taylor case

Ten men were killed on Saturday when gunmen opened fire on a drugs rehabilitation centre in the Mexican city of Irapuato, the government of Guanajuato state said.

Ten shot dead in attack on Mexican drug rehabilitation centre

The Pentagon announced today that it would enforce new restrictions on international military students in terms of access to guns on United States bases. This news came in after a Saudi officer killed three American sailors at a naval base in Florida last month.

Pentagon restricts access to guns for foreign trainees

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.

US grounds Saudi pilots, suspends military training after shooting at base

A US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbour Naval Shipyard in Hawaii on Wednesday before committing suicide, an official said. The two people killed were Department of Defence civilian employees, while a third civilian was wounded but "in stable condition at (an) area hospital," the official said.

Hawaii: Two killed, one injured in Pearl Harbour shooting

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