Republicans in the US Congress are likely to continue the years old tradition of blocking new gun control measures proposed by Democrats amid a number of deadly mass shootings across the United States, experts told Sputnik

Almost 80 people were killed and several dozen injured in gun violence across the United States over the weekend, Gun Violence Archive revealed on Monday

White House staff is engaged with Congress to try and move forward gun control legislation in the wake of several recent mass shootings in the United States, President Joe Biden said on Friday

The suspect in the deadly shooting at a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, bought his AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle on the day of the massacre in order to kill Dr. Preston Phillips who had performed surgery on him and whom he blamed for enduring pain, Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said on Thursday