Birmingham's mass shooting in 5 Points South served as the backdrop at an event at the White House focused on combatting violent gun crime Thursday.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to help schools create active shooter drills that are less traumatic for students yet still effective. The order also seeks to restrict new technologies that make guns easier to fire and obtain.

After a mass shooting Saturday night in Birmingham, various politicians have called for the have called for legislation making the "Glock switches" allegedly used in the shooting illegal in Alabama.

The mass shooting in the Five Points neighborhood of Birmingham Saturday night has led to new calls to ban devices that turn semi-automatic firearms into automatic ones. But it’s not clear if the proposals – introduced in the previous two sessions – can pass in a Legislature that has loosened most gun restrictions over the

Police said a weapon with a Glock switch was used in the shooting that killed four people and wounded 17 in Birmingham.

Days after the city was rocked by a mass shooting that left for dead and 17 injured, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin traveled to Washington to speak at a White House Event addressing gun violence in the U.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin called on Alabama legislators to ban gun conversion devices such as Glock switches hours after a mass shooting in an entertainment area Saturday night left four people dead and at least 18 others injured.