Urges Senate to pass wider background checks and touts his orders cracking down on ghost guns and dealers

  • President Joe Biden on Tuesday paid tribute to the families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nine years ago 
  • ‘We owe all these families more than our prayers. We owe them action,’ he said
  • In a video released by White House, Biden acknowledged the frustrations families felt in their failed attempts to get stricter gun laws passed
  • He called on the Senate to pass universal background checks and a law that would close the ‘boyfriend loophole’ 
  • ‘We can’t give up hope. We can’t stop,’ Biden saidÂ