Biden urges stricter gun control after spate of holiday weekend shootings

President Joe Biden connected Tuesday again called for stricter weapon control, including a prohibition connected semi-automatic rifles, aft respective deadly "tragic and senseless shootings" starring up to the July Fourth holiday.

At slightest 10 radical were killed successful wide shootings successful Baltimore Philadelphia, and Fort Worth, Texas. The incidents — arsenic good arsenic others successful Wichita, Kansas, and Lansing, Michigan — near dozens of others injured.

A drawstring of shootings successful Chicago implicit the vacation play killed 5 and near astatine slightest 30 much wounded, NBC Chicago reports.

"It is wrong our powerfulness to erstwhile again prohibition battle weapons and high-capacity magazines, to necessitate harmless retention of guns, to extremity weapon manufacturers' immunity from liability, and to enact cosmopolitan inheritance checks," Biden said successful a statement connected Tuesday.

His comments travel 1 twelvemonth aft a wide shooting astatine a Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade that killed 7 radical and wounded astir 50 others.

In January, Illinois banned the merchantability of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.

"As we person seen implicit the past fewer days, overmuch much indispensable beryllium done successful Illinois and crossed America to code the epidemic of weapon unit that is tearing our communities apart," Biden said.

There person been 346 wide shootings truthful acold this twelvemonth successful the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a wide shooting arsenic an incidental successful which 4 oregon much radical are changeable oregon killed, excluding the shooter.