"I have gone the full extent of my executive authority," President Joe Biden said about addressing guns after the Nashville mass school shooting.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that President Biden is calling on Congress to step up and address gun violence following a deadly shooting in Tennessee.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday continued to call for U.S. lawmakers to enact federal legislation addressing the nation's gun crisis, one day after three students and three adult staff members were killed at a Tennessee school.

In the wake of a mass killing at a Nashville school that left six dead, President Biden said there isn’t anything more he can do on gun control but beseech Congress to pass more stringent legislation.

U.S. President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban after six people, including three children, were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, the White House said.