That doesn’t mean the measures will pass, though.

“I’m prepared to stand on this floor and talk about the need for this body to come together on keeping terrorists away from getting guns.”

A team of 26 cyclists rode from Newtown, Conn. to D.C. in support of stricter gun control laws.

“It is bad enough that House Republicans continually reveal themselves to be hypocrites with repeated introduction of legislation to usurp the local autonomy of the District of Columbia despite their insistence on reducing the power of the federal government,” Norton said in a statement. “The timing of this bill, as we remember the victims of the tragic Newtown shooting and their families, is especially insulting and out of line.”

Singer Carole King will perform at the National Cathedral’s gun violence vigil ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.

President Obama said he is impaneling a group of cabinet officials and outside advisers to come up with a list of gun control proposals that he said he would like to begin pushing early next year.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said in interviews today that he would be open to allowing people to carry guns inside his state’s public schools in the wake of last Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

Stirred by the massacre last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 200 supporters of expanded gun control rallied outside the National Rifle Association’s lobbying office on Capitol Hill today.