gun laws

Noel Womersley is shown in dark overalls posing with a black Sako 85 hunting rifle.

‘Like a Ferrari, you don’t need it’: New Zealanders set to turn in guns

Tough new gun laws to be adopted in New Zealand after the nation’s worst mass murder by a lone gunman will to force many around the country to surrender many of their guns. The semi-automatics used in the attack will be banned, with exemptions for working hunters and tougher licensing rules are on the drawing board.

A kangeroo hunter at work, using a licensed weapon. Australia's gun culture has changed in recent years.

Why Australians handed in 26,000 guns to the government

Culture
Police officers guard the front of a center for the disabled, where a mass knife killing took place, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on July 26.

Under strict gun laws, Japan’s mass killers must rely on knives instead

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Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli on Utoya Island five years after the Norway shootings. He says the biggest victory for survivors of the attack like him is that the summer camp remains open and a new crop of kids is arriving next month.

Your answer to mass shootings is to get bigger guns. To me that’s really strange.

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An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

Do gun control debates ever change anything? In these countries they did.

Conflict