April
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.
- Tom McIlroy
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.
- Kathleen Foody and Bobby Caina Calvan
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.
- Michael Wines, Anne Barnard, Sean Keenan and Dave Montgomery
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
Bidens mourn with families of massacred children
The trips offering condolences from Mr Biden are becoming a common, solemn ritual of his presidency.
- Edgar Sandoval, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Karen Zraick and Jonathan Weisman
- Analysis
- Guns in America
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.
- Matthew Cranston
- Updated
- Mass shooting
‘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.
- Updated
- Acacia Coronado and Jim Vertuno
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.
- Myriam Robin
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.
- Andrew Dalton
September 2021
- Analysis
- Abortion
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
- Dan Balz
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.
- Daniel Rey
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.
- Rich McKay
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.
- Alexa Diaz
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.
- Keith Coffman and Rich McKay
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.
- Updated
- Lisa Marie Pane
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.
- Updated
- Paul Weber and Courtney Bonnell
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.
- Arturo Rubio, Manny Fernandez and Mariel Padilla
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.
- Laura Newberry, Jaclyn Cosgrove and Richard Winton
April 2019
Teen 'infatuated' with Columbine shooting found dead after manhunt
Authorities feared 18-year-old Sol Pais had bought a shotgun and travelled to Colorado to carry out a school shooting "inspired" by Columbine.
- AP
March 2019
Pauline Hanson vows revenge after PM's preference snub
Pauline Hanson says Scott Morrison is a "fool" after ordering Liberal MPs and candidates to preference One Nation below Labor on how-to-vote cards.
- Andrew Tillett and James Thomson