Washington, Safar 30, 1434, Jan 12, 2013, SPA - Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up a series of White House meetings on Friday and prepared recommendations to curb U.S. gun violence that will call for expanded background checks on gun buyers. Biden, who heads a task force due to give President Barack Obama recommendations next week, met with representatives of the video game industry, whose products often enable players to carry out shootings in graphically violent games. The vice president has said he will recommend "universal" background checks for all gun buyers - endorsed as a top priority on Friday by the prominent gun-control group the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - and new limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines, according to a report of Reuters. Obama formed the Biden task force following last month's massacre in Newtown, Connecticut in which a gunman shot dead 20 children and six adults at an elementary school. The White House reiterated on Friday that it also will try to revive the U.S. ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004 after being in effect for a decade. --SPA 12:08 LOCAL TIME 09:08 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1067786
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