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UPDATED: Gun and ammunition sales have spiked in South Australia ahead of an impending ban, retailers say, after other states this week imposed tough restrictions on firearms retailers in response to COVID-19 panic buying.
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Frantic people scrambled to get out of Times Square after the sound of a motorcycle backfiring caused fear in the wake of mass shootings in other American cities.
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UPDATED | The shooter who killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday shouldn’t have been able to purchase a gun under federal law, according to a preliminary statement by the U.S. Air Force obtained by The Texas Tribune.
UPDATED | A young white man dressed in tactical gear used an assault weapon to open fire on a church in a small town in southeast Texas, killing at least 26 people, including a five-year-old child.
Gun numbers in Australia have surged since the Port Arthur massacre two decades ago, despite fewer people owning firearms.
On the anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, legal commentator Morry Bailes sifts through the evidence in favour of John Howard’s gun control laws.
