June
Hunter Biden found guilty of lying in gun trial
Joe Biden’s son was found to have lied about his drug use to illegally buy a gun, making him the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime.
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- Tom Hals and Jack Queen
April
Police say 12-year-old carried out school shooting in Finland
Finnish authorities say the child shot and killed a classmate and seriously wounded two others in a suburb of Helsinki, shocking the nation.
- Essi Lehto
February
‘I’ve worn his shoes’: Hanson introduces her latest recruit
The One Nation leader believes new West Australian firearms reforms and resentment over the COVID-19 response will spark her party’s west coast revival.
- Tom Rabe
January
- Opinion
- US politics
The NRA’s legacy will haunt America for years
The National Rifle Association is now indistinguishable from the Republican Party – and thousands of Americans have paid with their lives for that reality.
- Francis Wilkinson
April 2023
This smart gun could change the US forever
Can a weapon first envisioned by a 15-year-old schoolboy reduce the number of shooting deaths?
- Ashlee Vance
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.
- Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai
April 2021
Biden calls US gun violence ‘an international embarrassment’
President Joe Biden signed a series of executive actions as he pressed “common-sense solutions” amid a proliferation of gun violence in America.
- Alexandra Jaffe, Ammer Madhani and Michael Balsamo
May 2020
Canada bans assault-style weapons after shooting rampage
The ban covers more than 1500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two weapons used in the murder of 22 people in Nova Scotia last month.
March 2020
US gun sales surge on coronavirus pandemic fears
US gun sales surge as some Americans fear an unravelling of the social order because of the coronavirus and think the government might take back their weapons.
- Kurtis Lee and Anita Chabria
February 2020
Facebook shuts down posts by Thai soldier who killed 26 in rampage
Security forces killed the rogue soldier after an overnight stand-off at a shopping centre in north-eastern Thailand.
- Panu Wongcha-um
March 2019
Christchurch gun shop sold rifles online to accused shooter
The gun shop owner who sold alleged killer Brenton Tarrant his guns says he bought them on-line
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'Our gun laws will change': Ardern
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to change NZ's gun laws after confirming the "primary perpetrator" in Christchurch's terror attack used five weapons.
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NZ gun ownership is among highest in the world
New Zealand's reputation as a laid-back and safe country, where even police are mostly unarmed, belies easy access to weapons and a private firearm ownership rate among the highest in the world.
- Will Ziebell