October 2024
Questions over apparent third attempt on Trump’s life
The suspect was driving a black SUV that was stopped by deputies assigned to a campaign rally in Coachella, east of Los Angeles.
September 2024
Trump gunman arrested after another assassination attempt
US Secret Service agents opened fire after noticing a man with an AK-style rifle and scope on the perimeter of Donald Trump’s golf club as he was on the course.
April 2024
Police killings spur $161m national register of firearms
More than 35 years after it was first proposed, a national database will be established to track millions of firearms around the country.
July 2022
Divided US tries to celebrate a July 4 marred by parade shooting
The latest mass shooting came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold it together.
June 2022
‘Scared and tired’: thousands across the US rally against gun violence
With their signs and chants, they condemned the drumbeat of mass shootings and renewed a call for federal legislation to limit military-style weapons.
May 2022
Canada to ban handgun sales and possession of assault weapons
The ban and proposed assault weapons law are the latest in a series of steps Justin Trudeau has taken to restrict firearms since 22 people were killed in rural Nova Scotia in 2020.
Bidens mourn with families of massacred children
The trips offering condolences from Mr Biden are becoming a common, solemn ritual of his presidency.
Biden’s uphill battle for gun reform after Texas massacre
The bloodshed was a grim reminder of the mass shootings that continue to plague the nation and, historically, a lack of political will for reform.
‘We have to act,’ Biden urges after school massacre
‘Sick and tired’ US president calls for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opens fire at a Texas school, killing 19 children.
April 2022
Katter not short of reasons to advocate arming children
His daughter Eliza is married to Robert Nioa, the chairman and chief executive of family firm NIOA, Australia’s largest privately owned supplier of small arms.
December 2021
‘I didn’t pull the trigger’: Baldwin
Alec Baldwin said in his first interview since the gun he was holding on a film set killed the cinematographer that someone is responsible, but it is not him.
September 2021
Abortion, voting, guns: Lone Star state of extreme conservatism
Republicans in Texas have given way to a far more extreme version of conservatism to please Donald Trump’s wing of the party. The rest of America is watching
January 2021
Why middle-class America is arming up
In the wake of the Capitol riot, gun shops across the US are seeing a boom in first-time buyers.
September 2019
NRA sues San Francisco over 'terrorist organisation' label
The NRA said a declaration by the city's Board of Supervisors that officials should limit businesses linked to the NRA because it is a "terrorist organisation" was effectively a blacklist.
San Francisco labels NRA a domestic terrorist organisation
"The NRA will continue working to protect the constitutional rights of all freedom-loving Americans," the gun lobby responds to the ban from the city on the bay.
Texas gunman fired from job before massacre
The man who killed seven people and wounded 22 others in a rolling rampage across West Texas at the weekend was fired from his trucking job hours before the massacre, media and officials reported.
Gun groups see opportunity in NRA turmoil
As the 2020 presidential campaign draws closer, gun control groups are seizing on the turmoil engulfing the NRA - as well as recent high profile shootings.
Five dead after man stopped by Texas troopers goes on rampage
In a chaotic rampage, the suspect hijacked a mail carrier truck and fired at random as he drove in the area of Odessa and Midland, two cities in the heart of Texas oil country.
August 2019
El Paso Walmart shooting: 20 reported dead in massacre
The gunman had fired an AK47-style rifle into the crowded store, sending panicked shoppers fleeing for their lives.
July 2019
California garlic festival shooting leaves 3 dead, 15 injured
A shooting at the famed Gilroy Garlic Festival in northern California left at least three dead and 15 injured.