PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawmakers from Philadelphia are calling on state and city officials to stem a rising tide of gun violence that included a fatal shooting at a graduation party.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrats in Virginia are trying to make the public case for greater gun restrictions ahead of a special legislative session next month spurred by the fatal shooting of 12...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Tuscaloosa's mayor is taking steps to curb a recent wave of gun violence.

Among the steps announced recently: An emergency measure that allows the police chief to...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A bank executive who survived 12 gunshots says she is going to make reducing gun violence her life's mission.

Whitney Austin says she has ended her time at Fifth Third...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell said Wednesday that he would support laws in every state requiring gun owners to be licensed and wants to explore requiring gun...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on a visit to Nevada by presidential candidate Eric Swalwell (all times local):

2:25 p.m.

Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell says he would...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's governor has signed a pair of new laws aimed at reducing gun violence.

One measure signed by Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, bans guns that do not have...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The Latest on plans by Virginia's governor to call a special legislative session on gun control (all times local):

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Florida school shooting survivor and gun control advocate is urging Maine lawmakers to act now to end gun violence instead of waiting for a mass shooting.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A rally to raise awareness about gun violence is set to be held in a town that experienced one of the worst mass shootings in the nation's history.

NEW YORK (AP) — Demonstrators are calling for the end of gun violence on the streets of New York City.

The National Action Network joined other activists Saturday for a march in Harlem to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders are in a feverish battle to one-up each other with ever-more-ambitious plans to beat back global warming , curb gun violence , offer universal...

HOUSTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled his first major policy proposal on Tuesday before one of the nation's largest teachers unions.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Authorities say 10 people have been shot - one fatally - when gun violence erupted at a holiday weekend party in Virginia.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Three bills aimed at preventing gun violence have cleared the state Senate.

The Senate on Thursday passed bills imposing a waiting period between the purchase and...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of their Cedar Rapids high school to call for actions to address gun violence following the recent killings of two teenagers.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Women who lost children to gun violence were among a crowd that gathered to break ground on a new Connecticut garden that will honor hundreds of victims killed by firearms...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Kamala Harris wants to ban the importation of AR-15-style assault weapons by executive action if elected president.

The Democratic senator and presidential candidate from...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina police agency says they are using technology to combat and reduce gun violence.

During a news conference Friday, the Columbia Police Department...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 72-hour "Cease-Fire" Mother's Day weekend is beginning in Baltimore.

Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence has set a goal for the city to go for three days without a...

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on the school shooting in Colorado that killed one student and injured eight (all times local):

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police detectives are trying to figure out whether a chaotic shooting attack on a crowd enjoying a weekend cookout might be competition between underworld groups, a...

BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island town has declared itself a "Second Amendment sanctuary."

The Burrillville Town Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday stating it supports...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Sen. Cory Booker will be the fifth Democratic presidential contender to campaign in Wisconsin in advance of the 2020 election.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Families of the victims of a mass shooting at a central Kansas lawn equipment factory in 2016 have won a $2 million legal settlement from a now-defunct pawnshop that sold the...

The deadly attack at Columbine High School in 1999 seemed to usher in a new era of school shootings.

Two decades later, polls consistently capture growing fears among American parents that...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Keyon Jackson-Malone got involved in violent activities when he was a young man even though, earlier, he had helped resolve disputes as a peer mediator at Morse Middle...

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A spate of street shootings in a northern New Jersey city has left one man dead and five other people wounded.

Authorities say it doesn't appear that any of the...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee has tabled a bill that originally created a gun safety program for Montana public schools and set fines for those who didn't properly secure a...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fresh from a victory in Pennsylvania last fall, anti-gun violence advocates are turning their attention to legislation to empower family members or police to seek the...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — David Green can move the toes on his left foot if he concentrates.

It's not easy. Some motions are painful, and the 33-year-old strains to perform even basic tasks,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gun control is dead for the session if House Democrats wrap two of their priority bills for addressing gun violence into an umbrella public safety budget bill, the top...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Thursday to reauthorize a 25-year-old law that helps victims of domestic and sexual violence, despite complaints by Republicans that Democrats were politicizing...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's focus on school lockdown drills and security infrastructure is inadequate in preventing school shootings and keeping students safe, according to two St. Paul...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A survivor of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert has spoken in support of a series of gun bills facing Rhode Island lawmakers.

TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico county has revoked a resolution protesting state gun-control reforms and replaced it with one saying officials have a responsibility to protect citizens'...

There are an estimated 1.5 million firearms in New Zealand — roughly one for every three citizens. While that rate pales in comparison to the United States and more than a dozen other countries,...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on gun control initiatives in New Mexico (all times local):

2:30 p.m.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a bill that will expand mandatory...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group says it has struck a settlement deal with the Shawnee Mission School District in a federal lawsuit alleging violations of the free speech and press...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina police and a bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed support Monday for a bill that would prohibit a wider range of convicted criminals from carrying...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers sided with a powerful gun-rights organization Friday in approving a bill to let people carry a concealed handgun without a permit or training.

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police in Gary are asking the public for any information that could help them address an increase in homicides and gun violence this year.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Citing a "crisis," a Democratic state lawmaker said Friday that she has introduced bills to enact stronger gun control laws in Rhode Island.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is seeking a 10 percent surcharge on the purchase of guns and ammunition as part of her budget proposal.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say the number of homicides fell significantly in February compared to the same month last year and that the total of 23 is half what it was in February in 2016 — the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House put on a display of Democratic priorities this week with two bills to bolster background checks on firearms purchases, showing just how quickly the politics of gun...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A student journalism project has concluded that at least 1,149 children and teenagers died from a shooting in the year since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Around 200 teenage reporters from across the country worked to document the stories of the children up to age 18 who died from gun violence in the year since 17 people died in a mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school.