Biden's moves on guns won't cure US gun violence epidemic: report

LONDON - US President Joe Biden has taken some new moves on gun control, but by their limited definition they cannot cure Americans' addiction to guns and the murderous deaths caused by them, British newspaper The i has said.

Fresh proposals unveiled by Biden include cracking down on the so-called "Iron Pipeline", a smuggling route that sees guns, many of them stolen, illegally transported from ten states in the American South with lax gun control laws to parts of the country with much tighter restrictions, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative will train prosecutors to pursue untraceable firearms that contain no serial number and are often assembled from kits, it added.

But none of Biden's initiatives is sufficiently sweeping to cure America's gun violence epidemic, the newspaper said, noting that with 316 daily shootings and more than 50 mass shootings reported so far this year, more than 5,400 people have lost their lives in the first six weeks of 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a US gun violence monitoring group.