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Texas shooting is new test for Biden’s long battle over guns

FILE - Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 19, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File) FILE - President Barack Obama stands at the podium at left as Mark Barden, the father of Newtown shooting victim Daniel is embraced by Vice President Joe Biden during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 17, 2013, in Washington, about measures to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Julia Stokes, 11, following a news conference on proposals to reduce gun violence, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. Obama and Biden were joined by law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote the president about gun violence following the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month. Other letter writers included are, Hinna Zeejah, center in red, Taejah Goode and Grant Fritz, right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - Vice President Joe Biden, right, with President of the National Association of Police Organizations and Boston police officer, Thomas Nee, center and Attorney General Eric Holder, far left, speaks to media during a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, Dec. 20, 2012, in Washington. Biden lead a task force that will look at ways of reducing gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - President Joe Biden hugs Mia Tretta, a survivor of the Saugus Hight School shooting in Santa Clarita, Calif., after she spoke in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2022. Biden announced a final version of the administration's ghost gun rule, which comes with the White House and the Justice Department under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - Vice President Joe Biden looks on as tears flow down President Barack Obama's face as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - Vice President Joe Biden holds up a form for over-the-counter firearms purchases as he talks about gun legislation at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on reducing gun violence, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, July 12, 2021, in Washington. From left, Brooklyn Borough President and New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Julie Rodriguez, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Biden. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) FILE - President Joe Biden holds pieces of a 9mm pistol as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2022. Biden announced a final version of the administration's ghost gun rule, which comes with the White House and the Justice Department under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) President Joe Biden listens to Vice President Kamala Harris speak before he signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. The order comes on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death, and is focused on policing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) FILE - Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, holds a TEC-9 semi-automatic weapon during a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill, Aug. 3, 1993, as the committee holds hearings on combating the proliferation of assault weapons. A collection of black, military-style rifles were laid out in the middle of the room as Biden, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, denounced the sale of guns whose “only real function is to kill human beings at a ferocious pace.” (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File) A law enforcement personnel walks past crosses bearing the names of Tuesday's shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)