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June

Hunter Biden leaving the court.

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 a child has killed a classmate in a school shooting in Helsinki.

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

Pauline Hanson with West Australian MP Ben Dawkins on Thursday.

‘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

Firearms on display at a gun show in Las Vegas.

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

Kloepfer spent his last years in high school, a gap year and two years at MIT working on Biofire’s prototypes and business plan.

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
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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.

  • Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai

April 2021

The weapon of choice in many US mass shootings: AR-15 rifle.

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

"You do not need an AR-15 to take down a deer," Trudeau said. "So, effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade, assault weapons in this country."

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

Thai policemen stand behind a truck outside Terminal 21 Korat mall, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand amid Sunday's mass shooting.

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

Gun City owner David Tipple says alleged gunman Brendan Tarrant bought guns legally on-line.

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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Jacinda Ardern speaks to members of the Muslim community at the Canterbury Refugee Centre.

'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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Jacinda Ardern said that the mosque attacker was a licensed gun owner and that five firearms were used during the rampage.

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

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