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October 2024

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at the rally in Coachella, California.

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

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on the campaign trail.

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

Law enforcement officers help evacuate the neighbourhood after the shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

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

Demonstrators listen to speakers during a March For Our Lives rally near the Washington Monument.

‘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.

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May 2022

Justin Trudeau: “As a government, as a society, we have a responsibility to act to prevent more tragedies.”

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.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School ion Sunday.

Bidens mourn with families of massacred children

The trips offering condolences from Mr Biden are becoming a common, solemn ritual of his presidency.

The Uvalde township lays flowers outside the school where the children were shot dead.

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.

President Joe Biden speaks about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

‘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

Bob Katter says he’s not pro-gun because his son-in-law sells them, but does have said son-in-law because he’s so pro-gun.

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

“Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me,” Alec Baldwins says.

‘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

Women protest against Texas’ tough new abortion ban on September 1, 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

Wayne LaPierre: "We will never stop fighting for our law-abiding members and their constitutional freedoms."

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.

Robbie Ramirez, 10, holds onto his father, Robert Ramirez, at a vigil for victims of the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 29.

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.

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Odessa police chief Michael Gerke: "My Heart aches for all of them."

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.

Students Celeste Lujan, left, and Yasmin Natera mourn the loss of a friend in the latest mass shooting, at the weekend.

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.

A man prays outside a medical centre in Odessa, Texas.

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

Walmart customers are escorted from the store after a gunman opened fire on shoppers.

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

Police officers escort people from Christmas Hill Park following a deadly shooting during the Gilroy Garlic Festival, in Gilroy, California.

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.

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