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Ron DeSantis will travel to Cobb County, Georgia, on Thursday to visit a gun store as part of his ongoing book tour, days after the Nashville shooting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to Cobb County, Georgia, on Thursday to visit a popular gun store as part of his ongoing book tour ahead of what is expected to be a presidential campaign announcement this summer. The previously scheduled trip happens to come days after a shooter killed six people at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, which Georgia Democrats noted in criticizing DeSantis, who is seen as a rising Republican star after easily winning reelection in November. The governor is continuing a tour pegged to his new memoir and promoting what he calls Florida's "blueprint" for the rest of the country, believing it can serve as a model for governing and politics nationwide. The gun store in suburban Atlanta, Adventure Outdoors, has been a campaign stop for other Republicans, including Georgia Gov. Brian Ke...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that lawmakers aren't considering new gun reforms such as an assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the Nashville shooting. Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not say the House will consider an assault weapons ban when he was asked about the calls for reform, setting up a familiar showdown between President Joe Biden and Republicans in Congress following the tragic mass shooting in Nashville. The speaker emphasized his conference's commitment to tackling the issue of mass shootings, though he did not mention particular pieces of legislation he would put forth as calls mount for changes to existing gun laws. "There's not one person in America who doesn't want to try to solve all this," he said when asked at an unrelated press conference on Thursday about his plan to deal with mass shootings. "We want to make sure we're taking all the information." "I would say to the nation as a whole that the proble...

Senior DHS officials said he had a "neo-Nazi ideology." The suspect accused of shooting and killing eight people at a mall in Allen, Texas, earlier this month "fixated on mass shooting s and held views consistent with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ... ideologies," according to a new bulletin released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. ABC News has previously reported the suspect in the Allen, Texas, mall shooting had tattoos of Nazi symbols on his body, and on a call with reporters, senior DHS officials told ABC News the shooter in Texas had a "neo-Nazi ideology." In this May 6, 2023, file photo, police are on the scene of a shooting at Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas. Tian Dan/Xinhua via Newscom, FILE MORE: Texas mall shooting updates: What police found after search warrant issued "Recent tragic events highlight the continued heightened threat environment our nation faces, and these threats are driven by v...

Candidates grieved the Jacksonville Dollar General shooting; Vivek Ramaswamy likened Rep. Ayanna Pressley to the conduct of the KKK; and Trump's team talked fundraising Republican presidential candidates including Mike Pence and Tim Scott are lamenting the Saturday shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, and the racism that authorities said motivated it -- but the White House hopefuls are steering clear of the debate over gun laws. Jacksonville authorities said the three Black victims were killed in a "racially motivated shooting " by a man who had detailed a "disgusting ideology of hate" in his writings. Elsewhere on the campaign trail this weekend, entrepreneur and GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy compared Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a Black House member who is part of the progressive "squad," to the conduct of the Ku Klux Klan -- drawing quick pushback. And former President Donald Trump saw massive fundraising after he surrendered to Georgia au...

Hours before the Maine mass shooting, the Senate approved an amendment that could limit background checks for veterans and service members with mental health issues. Hours before a suspect, a U.S. Army reservist with mental Health concerns, fatally shot 18 people in Lewiston, Maine Wednesday, the Senate approved an amendment that could scale back background check requirements for some veteran s and service members with mental Health issues. The amendment was authored by Republican Sens. John Kennedy and Jerry Moran, who had concerns that veterans could lose gun rights. It prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from reporting certain veterans to the National Criminal Background Check system when their finances are being managed by a conservator at the VA. According to Kennedy, under current law, if the Department of Veterans Affairs steps in to help manage a veteran's financial benefits in a conservatorship, the VA is required to report that veteran to the criminal backg...

President Joe Biden lamented recent shootings and called for stricter gun reforms on the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill. President Joe Biden on Tuesday lamented recent shooting s and called for stricter gun reforms in a statement marking one year after the holiday parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. In the July 4 statement, Biden noted shootings in past days in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Texas, Baltimore, Maryland, Lansing, Michigan, and Chicago, saying, "we pray for the day when our communities will be free from gun violence." MORE: July 4 Highland Park parade shooting: Remembering the victims 1 year later "Today also marks one year since a shooter armed with an AR-15-style weapon fired upon a crowd of Americans gathered for an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. In mere moments, this day of patriotic pride became a scene of pain and tragedy," Biden said. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden d...

President Joe Biden plans on Wednesday to call on Republicans in Congress to act to end the " epidemic " of gun violence in the United States, the White House said. President Joe Biden plans on Wednesday to call on Republicans in Congress to act to end the " epidemic " of gun violence in the United States, the White House said. The remarks are expected during an afternoon speech marking a year since the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen fourth graders and two teachers were killed when a gunman stormed Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022. Seventeen others were injured. "The president will remember those lost in Uvalde and reiterate his call for Republicans in Congress to act and help stop the epidemic of gun violence that has become the number one killer of kids in America," a White House official said in the statement.  A memorial dedicated to the 19 children and two adults murdered on May 24, 2022 during the mass shooting at Robb Ele...

Flags will remain at half-staff "as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence” until Thursday at sundown, Biden’s proclamation said. President Joe Biden issued a proclamation Sunday night ordering American flags on federal government property to be flown at half-staff , to honor the victims after a gunman allegedly shot 20 people, 10 fatally, at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park. Flags will remain at half-staff "as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence” until Thursday at sundown, Biden’s proclamation said. "While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds," Biden wrote in a statement earlier Sunday evening. MORE: Monterey Park mass shooting updates: Suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say...