SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. A majority of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges rejected gun rights […]
Poland’s parliament has approved controversial proposals to decriminalise in certain circumstances the use of firearms by border guards in self-defence. NGOs say the legal changes contravene human rights standards, but the government says they are […]
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The armourer, 26, was found guilty […]
A householder has been convicted of murder for shooting a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in took a wrong turn up his driveway in rural New York. Kaylin Gillis was shot in the […]
Police have seized up to £130m worth of cannabis as part of a nationwide crackdown, described as the “most significant” operation of its kind in UK law enforcement history. Officers discovered more than 180,000 cannabis […]
Detectives have confirmed for the first time that two of Scotland’s most wanted men may have been killed while on the run in Brazil. Speculation about the fate of James and Barry Gillespie, who previously […]
Canada should introduce a total ban on the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. His government is proposing a new law that would freeze private ownership of all short-barrelled […]
China has sentenced to death the former police chief of the northern region of Inner Mongolia. Zhao Liping, 65, was convicted of murder, bribery, and possession of firearms and explosives, the official Xinhua news agency […]
A three-year undercover operation has resulted in more than 20 members of Salford crime families being convicted of guns and drug trafficking. Those convicted include three generations from one family including a 77-year-old grandfather. A […]
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