The White House made an emotional plea on Wednesday for Republican action to curb mass shootings.

California has suffered one of its bloodiest spates of mass gun violence in decades this week.

Survivors of US mass shootings appeal for assault weapons ban in a gathering outside the Capitol Hill.

Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

A gunman who fatally shot five people including himself at an Oklahoma medical building after buying an assault-style rifle the same day had gone there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, authorities said on Thursday.

A vast majority of Americans in a new poll support background checks on all gun sales, one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.