Lois Beckett, The Guardian

Vice-president Joe Biden admitted defeat on passing stricter gun laws at the federal level, telling local leaders Tuesday, “We’re probably not going to get much more done in the next nine months.” But he urged state and local politicians to continue fighting.

As tens of thousands of National Rifle Association members continued their annual meeting in Louisville this weekend , a group of gun control advocates gathered at a local university to pray for them, asking God to “open their minds and their hearts”.

In December 2012, when the news broke that classrooms full of first-graders had been shot to death at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, Julianne Moore was on a movie set in Queens.

Chris Murphy, a Democrat who represents relatives of the Sandy Hook massacre, said political parties don’t just disagree on guns – ‘we are on different planets’

Chris Murphy wasn’t pleased with Sanders’ answer when asked about a lawsuit against gun dealers and manufacturers by family of those killed in the massacre