US President Joe Biden urges ban on assault-style weapons

United States President Joe Biden has said that the US should ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to tackle the carnage of gun violence. The US President spoke after a string of mass shootings in the country.

In a speech to the nation from the White House, Mr Biden said, too many everyday places in America had become killing fields.

The US President said, there is need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He further said, if Congress cannot outlaw such weapons, it should seek to raise the age



to buy them from 18 to 21.

Mr. Biden also called for expanding federal background checks and nationwide red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to remove weapons from anyone deemed dangerous.

The latest mass shooting on Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving four dead, follows a massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, as well as an apparently racially-motivated attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, leaving 10 people dead.