The United States men's national team wore orange armbands during Sunday's 0-0 friendly draw against Uruguay to show support for a letter the U.S. Soccer Federation sent to Congress asking it to pass stricter gun control legislation.
The letter was written the wake of the mass shooting of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman. That massacre came just 10 days after another teenager shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on gun control legislation in the coming days.