US flags near the monument to the first US President George Washington in Washington DC WASHINGTON, Jan 3 White House against the background of a record number of cases of mass shooting in the United States announced the steps of the administration to reduce them: a license for weapons will be given only to those who have a place to store them. «The Department of Justice has announced a new rule that will help establish the safe storage of weapons» -White House service. 
In the United States, recorded a new weekly maximum of incidents with shooting As stated in the message, the new rule introduces a requirement that weapons can only be sold to someone who can confirm the possibility of their safe storage. «This announcement is based on the Department's efforts to reduce the risk of weapons falling into the wrong hands,» the White House press service quoted Justice Minister and Attorney General Merrick Garland as saying. as a result of the unscrupulous use of weapons. » , which is prohibited from possession, including a non-resident. «The changed rules require that the presence of a protected storage location for weapons be confirmed by a federal license. For violation of the license, the license can be revoked,» — says the clarification of the Department of Justice. 
The parents of a teenager who staged the shooting at a school in the United States did not plead guilty Biden said that there was an «epidemic of armed violence» in the United States, commenting on another case of a mass execution in May 2021. In total, in the United States, there were 717 cases of mass shooting, when more than 4 people were injured or killed in 2021 — this figure is given by the Gun Violence Archive portal, which collects statistics on incidents with the use of firearms. This is the largest number of mass shootings in recent years. In 2020, observers recorded 611 such incidents, a year earlier — 417, in 2018 — 336. According to data for 2014-2017, the number of incidents ranged from 272 to 382 per year.In December, a teenager started a shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan : With a pistol stolen from his father, he killed four students and injured seven more before police detained him. Against this backdrop, local American media reports of street shootings rarely go to the federal level. Mass shooting also took place on the eve of January 1. In the state of Maryland bordering Washington, according to local media reports, after the New Year's shootout, three teenagers and one adult were in hospitals. In the city of Germantown, Philadelphia, on the night of December 31, about 80 shots were heard: six armed men got out of the van and shot a group standing on the corner, they opened fire in response; seven people ended up in hospitals. On December 30, a black man shot and injured two others in Kirksville, Missouri.
