Vice-President Joe Biden wrapped up a series of White House meetings and prepared recommendations to curb US gun violence that will call for expanded background checks on gun buyers and set up a heated, likely uphill battle in Congress to revive a ban on military-style assault weapons.

Biden, who heads a task force due to give President Barack Obama recommendations this 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.

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 that it also will try to revive the US ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004 after being in effect for a decade. The Obama administration rejected suggestions it was trying to lower expectations for getting a broad ban on assault weapons approved by Congress.