16/01/2013 | World

Obama unveils biggest gun-control push in decades

US President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers today as he tried to channel national outrage over the Newtown school massacre into the biggest US gun-control push in decades.

28/03/2013 | World

Newtown school gunman fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes

The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes, selecting high capacity magazines from a home arsenal stocked with swords, knives and a cache of guns, officials said.

08/01/2013 | World

NRA, video game makers to meet with Biden gun task force this week

The powerful US gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, is slated to meet with US Vice-President Joe Biden as he considers recommendations on how to respond to a mass shooting last month in Newtown, Connecticut, the White House said today.

10/01/2013 | World

Biden draws NRA ire in drive against gun violence

Vice President Joe Biden butted heads with the powerful National Rifle Association today in his drive to reduce US gun violence, drawing complaints from the lobby group that the White House is trying to limit constitutionally protected gun rights.

15/01/2013 | World

NY enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed into law one of the nation's toughest gun-control measures and the first to be enacted since the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in neighboring Connecticut.

15/12/2012 | World

Police identify victims of Connecticut school shooting

18/12/2012 | World

NRA breaks silence, pledges to help stop US massacres

The National Rifle Association said today it wanted to contribute meaningfully to prevent another massacre like the Connecticut shooting, suggesting a sharp change in tone for the largest US gun rights group.

03/01/2013 | World

New Sandy Hook school opens after attack

Twenty days after the massacre that left 20 first graders and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, plunging a rural New England town and the nation into grief, classes resumed today for the more than 400 students who lived through the harrowing assault.