"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.

Report Tuesday, March 28 © AP Fallout after Nashville school shooting President Biden again called on Congress to act on gun policy Tuesday in the wake of the

I have gone the full extent of my executive authority to do, on my own, anything about guns,” President Biden told reporters Tuesday.

The president renewed his call for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban and said there’s a “moral price to pay for inaction.”