News Encyclopedia: US major gun control laws explained

Tyra Hemans, 19, left, and Logan Locke, 17, right, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wait to board buses in Parkland.

Tyra Hemans, 19, left, and Logan Locke, 17, right, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wait to board buses in Parkland. Source: AP

United States’ latest school shooting on February 14, the worst since 2012, has renewed calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment, the constitutional provision protecting the right “to keep and bear arms”. Winmas Yu explains the major gun control laws in the States in this episode of News Encyclopedia.



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