President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers on Wednesday as he tried to channel national outrage over the massacre at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school into the biggest U.S. gun-control push in decades, according to Reuters.
Rolling out a wide-ranging plan for executive and legislative action to curb gun violence, Obama presented his agenda at a White House event in front of an audience that included relatives of some of the 20 first-graders who were killed along with six adults in the December 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.