{"id":3857,"date":"2021-02-15T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2021-02-15T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:28:44","slug":"biden-calls-for-restricting-sale-of-firearms-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/biden-calls-for-restricting-sale-of-firearms-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls for restricting sale of firearms in US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US President\u00a0<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u00a0has called on Congress to move forward on gun-reform legislation, including a ban on assault weapons, in a bid to help prevent another mass shooting in the US,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0informs, referring to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-02-14\/biden-calls-on-congress-to-enact-commonsense-gun-law-reforms\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets,&#8221; Biden said in a statement issued by the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We owe it to all those we\u2019ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s statement marked the three-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which a gunman killed 14 students and three educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0has called on Congress to move forward on gun-reform legislation, including a ban on assault weapons, in a bid to help prevent another mass shooting in the US,\u00a0&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;\u00a0informs, referring to\u00a0Bloomberg. &#8220;I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/biden-calls-for-restricting-sale-of-firearms-in-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden calls for restricting sale of firearms in US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}