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1. News - World

   US Senate faces a showdown over gun rights

   Posted Apr 17th 2013, 02:10pm by Agence France-Presse in Washington

   ... (local time) on the most significant US gun bill in nearly 20 years, but it remained unclear late Tuesday whether he had enough support for the background check measure, the bill’s core ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1216722/us-senate-faces-showdown-over-gun-rights
2. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Guns go off by accident at US weapons shows, five injured

   Posted Jan 20th 2013, 11:14am by Associated Press

   ... News World Shooting Gun Control US gun laws Associated Press Accidental gunfire at three gun shows around the United States on Saturday left five injured, authorities said. Three people were injured in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show at the state fairgrounds, a quarterly event that usually draws thousands of people. State agriculture department ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1132173/guns-go-accident-us-weapons-shows-five-injured
3. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Children at centre stage of emotional US gun debate

   Posted Jan 17th 2013, 12:44pm by Reuters in Washington

   ... News World US gun debate Children Reuters in Washington “Dear President Obama,” began a letter from 8-year-old Grant Fritz, with the shaky printing – missed words, spelling errors – of someone just learning how to put thoughts down on paper. “I think there should be some changes in the law with guns,” Fritz said in the December 17 letter he sent to the president days after ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1130069/children-centre-stage-emotional-us-gun-debate
4. Comment - Blogs

   A farewell to arms

   Posted Dec 27th 2012, 01:25pm by Jason Y Ng

   ... reports them unless they are a “shooting rampage.” And each time after a massacre, gun enthusiasts line up outside Wal-Mart to stock up on assault weapons for fear of tougher gun laws. That’s ... I have travelled widely in the US and have seen the never ending availability of guns etc first hand. Of course we have crime and yes on rare occasions children are involved but we never have ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1113512/farewell-arms
5. News - World - UNITED STATES

   US gun bill stumbles over background checks

   Posted Mar 08th 2013, 09:47am by Agence France-Presse in Washington

   ... or it could ultimately be used to compile a national gun registry, something currently prohibited by law. Despite the setback, Coburn insisted he was “still hopeful we’ll get a bill that will actually ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1186101/us-gun-bill-stumbles-over-background-checks
6. News - World - UNITED STATES

   US police launch manhunt for ex-cop over killings

   Posted Feb 08th 2013, 02:21am by AFP

   ... named in a “rambling” online manifesto by Dorner, a 33-year-old US Navy reservist. “Dorner is considered to be armed and extremely dangerous,” LAPD chief Charlie Beck told a press conference, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1145718/la-police-launch-manhunt-ex-cop-over-killings
7. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Stand-off as US gunman holes up with kidnapped boy

   Posted Jan 31st 2013, 02:55pm

   ... in my truck, and he just stared and stared and stared at me.” Children at centre stage of emotional US gun debate Four dead, 3 police hurt in Pennsylvania shootings ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1140209/stand-us-gunman-holes-kidnapped-boy
8. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Widow of cinema shooting victim sues psychiatrist

   Posted Jan 17th 2013, 10:56am

   ... the massacre, one of the worst ever mass shootings in modern US history, which revived America’s perennial debate over gun control. In a statement responding to the lawsuit, filed on Monday, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1130011/widow-cinema-shooting-victim-sues-psychiatrist
9. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Town renames Connecticut school for slain teacher

   Posted Jan 15th 2013, 05:40pm

   ... News World Newtown shootings Victoria Soto US gun laws Associated Press in Stratford, Connecticut Officials of a town near Newtown, Connecticut, are renaming a local school for a resident killed in the primary school massacre and who has been hailed as a hero. HoneySpot Elementary School in Stratford will be named after 27-year-old Victoria Soto who died trying to shield her ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1128656/town-renames-connecticut-school-slain-teacher
10. News - World

    7 charged in US shooting that killed 2 policemen

    Posted Aug 18th 2012, 11:47am

    ... Authorities said Joekel was wanted in Kansas and in Nebraska over threats he was accused of making against law enforcement officers. According to the sheriff's office in Gage County, Nebraska, ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/news/world/article/1017809/7-charged-us-shooting-killed-2-policemen

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