US president Donald Trump said he is "watching court cases and rulings" before taking action on raising age limits for purchasing some firearms, arguing that there is "not much political support (to put it mildly)".

In the week since 17 of David Hogg’s classmates and teachers were gunned down in Florida, he and his fellow high schoolers have launched a movement that reshaped the gun control

Most Irish people adopted a high-moral-ground response to the latest gun slaughter at an American school. Sadness and sympathy were mixed, but an inability to understand why America won’t tackle the gun insanity prevailed — as it always does in these tragic circumstances.

The student-driven movement to rewrite US gun laws showed no sign of waning a week after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida school, with politicians yielding to pressure to respond.

US President Donald Trump has endorsed stricter gun control measures, including raising the minimum age to 21 for possessing a broader range of weapons than at present.

President Donald Trump has said that if one of the victims of the latest school shooting in the US, a football coach, had been armed "he would have shot and that would have been the end of it".

US president Donald Trump has directed the justice department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year's Las Vegas massacre.

Latest:: Pupils from several Florida high schools have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with students from a nearby school where 17 people were gunned down in their classrooms on Valentine's Day.

Thousands of angry students, parents and residents have demanded stricter gun control laws, as new details were revealed about the suspect accused of killing 17 people in a Florida high school.

Donald Trump has condemned a jury’s verdict that a Mexican man is not guilty of murdering a woman on a San Francisco pier.

Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention that it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs as a place of worship.

A bill to ease laws on the purchase of gun silencers is gaining momentum even as the US reels from the horror of one of the deadliest killings in its history, writes Bette Browne.

A 50-strong taskforce to tackle gangland crime will be unveiled by the Government next week.

Plans to bar firearms sales to terror suspects are unconstitutional, one of the most powerful politicians in the US has said.

Rebellious US Democrats have staged a round-the-clock sit-in on the floor of the House to demand votes on gun-control bills, shouting down Speaker Paul Ryan when he attempted to restore order as their protest stretched into the night.

A divided US Senate has blocked gun control measures, eight days after Orlando's mass shooting intensified pressure on senators to act.

The New York Times has used its first front page editorial almost one hundred years to call for gun control in the US.

Days after a deadly shooting in Oregon, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton unveiled gun control measures aimed at strengthening background checks on gun buyers and eliminating legal immunity for sellers.