The Bondi tragedy has sparked calls for a national firearms register and tighter controls on rapid-fire rifles, but gun dealers and lobby groups are fighting back with coordinated online campaigns and ...

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The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, DC, over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights. The US ...

The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack - its deadliest mass shooting in decades. The scheme is the largest since the Port Arthur massacre in ...

Before World War Two, the national police in Japan were used substantially as an enforcement agency for political reasons. After the war this changed, and the police were re-formed with a vision of ...

The crackdown will also ban most recreational shooters from owning more than four firearms, which would force Sydney’s most prolific gun owners to surrender more than 30,000 firearms between them. The ...

Japanese police are calling on people who have a so-called toy gun that can fire real bullets to surrender them by the end of this year or possibly face charges. The gun in question is the ...

Prime minister announces first firearm buyback since Port Arthur massacre, and designates Sunday a national day of reflection in honour of Hanukah shooting victims Victims of Bondi beach shooting Ten ...

The number of 3D-printed guns recovered at crime scenes has increased dramatically in recent years, according to a report released Wednesday by the gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the biggest gun buyback since the Port Arthur massacre almost 30 years ago, as he works with states to impose strict limits on the number of guns a person ...

In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, it took John Howard just a few weeks to enact one of the biggest pieces of gun control reform in the world. Given how difficult it can seem to get big, ...