Ghost Guns, Vaccines, Prince: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
April 8, 2021
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1. President Biden took his first steps to address gun violence, saying, “We’ve got a long way to go.”
With legislation stalled by Republican opposition in Congress, the president ordered a crackdown on “ghost guns” — firearms assembled from kits — and said the epidemic of shootings in the U.S. was an “international embarrassment.”
His announcement came after two mass shootings, in Georgia and Colorado, that again focused public attention on the issue.