President Biden is calling on Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks for gun buyers and create new “red flag” laws that would prohibit some people from owning firearms. Biden made the call during a rare primetime speech from the White House Thursday evening.

President Joe Biden: “I support the bipartisan efforts that include a small group of Democrats and Republican senators trying to find a way. But, my god, the fact that the majority of the Senate Republicans don’t want any of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote, I find unconscionable.”