US Senators Determined to Get Gun Control Legislation Passed

Mourners gathered to remember those killed when gunman Omar Mateen burst into the Pulse gay nightclub on Sunday.

It was the worst mass shooting in modern US history. Dozens of people remain in hospital, some in a critical condition.

Followed by the shooting at an Orlando nightclub that left 49 people dead, US Democratic senators are conducting a filibuster in an attempt to force a vote on gun control legislation

Senator Chris Murphy determined to stay on the Senate floor “until we get some signal… that we can come together”.

In another development, Mateen reportedly made a series of Facebook posts before and during his attack in which he raged against the “filthy ways of the west” and blamed the US for the deaths of “innocent women and children”, a Senate committee letter has revealed.