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Buyback looms as premier backs 'good people' with guns

Buyback looms as premier backs 'good people' with guns

More than a quarter of a million guns are set to be given up in a national buyback after Australia's worst terror attack.

Drive-by shooting: police rule out further attack risk

Drive-by shooting: police rule out further attack risk

Drive-by shooting: police rule out further attack risk

Drive-by shooting: police rule out further attack risk

Police have called on the community to help catch offenders who carried out a drive-by shooting that left a young woman fighting for her life.

Teenage boy charged after alleged drive-by shooting

Teenage boy charged after alleged drive-by shooting

Teenage boy charged after alleged drive-by shooting

Teenage boy charged after alleged drive-by shooting

A teenager who allegedly shot a hail of bullets from a rifle at a home with people inside in a drive-by shooting is facing eight charges.

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Bystander shoots US teen who fatally gunned down four

Bystander shoots US teen who fatally gunned down four

A 16-year-old has opened fire at a US school, killing three children and a teacher before being shot by a person at the scene who followed him inside.

'Scary': deadly daylight shooting rocks quiet suburb

'Scary': deadly daylight shooting rocks quiet suburb

A man has been shot dead in a home in what police are treating as a targeted shooting linked to organised crime, as local residents wait for answers.

Speeding fines dispute triggered killing of family man

Speeding fines dispute triggered killing of family man

A killer and his accomplice have been jailed after a beloved family man was fatally shot in the back while trying to recoup payment for two speeding fines.

Man shot dead after aiming loaded rifle at cop: police

Man shot dead after aiming loaded rifle at cop: police

Police were told a man had a weapon in the car when he crashed into a tree, in an incident where he was shot dead by officers.

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Police arrest four in connection with gangland shooting

Police arrest four in connection with gangland shooting

Police arrest four in connection with gangland shooting

Police arrest four in connection with gangland shooting

Authorities have charged four people with a number of offences, including murder, in connection with a fatal shooting in March.

Tributes for boy who died in hospital after shooting

Tributes for boy who died in hospital after shooting

Tributes for boy who died in hospital after shooting

Tributes for boy who died in hospital after shooting

The school attended by an 11-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the face has paid tribute to him after he died in hospital from his injuries.

Widened search, gangland probes after boy shot in face

Widened search, gangland probes after boy shot in face

Widened search, gangland probes after boy shot in face

Widened search, gangland probes after boy shot in face

Detectives are looking for witnesses nearly a day after boy, 11, was shot inside a unit, probing possible organised crime links among those present.

Gun debate fires up with reload on buyback pushback

Gun debate fires up with reload on buyback pushback

Gun debate fires up with reload on buyback pushback

Gun debate fires up with reload on buyback pushback

A state opposition proposal to halt a buyback scheme and review firearm restrictions has reignited the post-Bondi terror attack gun debate.

Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting

Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting

Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting

Philippine teen kills two students in school shooting

The Philippines has been rocked by its third school shooting since June, with at least two people dead and eight others injured.

Group with alleged links to mistaken killing extradited

Group with alleged links to mistaken killing extradited

Group with alleged links to mistaken killing extradited

Group with alleged links to mistaken killing extradited

An extradition process is underway for a group, including a teenage boy, linked to a gun allegedly used in a mistaken identity killing of a university student.

'Consult your conscience': plea to young man's killer

'Consult your conscience': plea to young man's killer

'Consult your conscience': plea to young man's killer

'Consult your conscience': plea to young man's killer

The sister of a man killed in a targeted attack in Sydney's west earlier this year has begged the public to share any information they have with police.

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Police-backed gun cap rejected in parliamentary vote

A push to include gun caps in firearm law changes prompted by the deadly Bondi shooting has fallen short.

'Targeted attack': man shot dead in car park

A man has been fatally shot in the car park of a community centre in Punchbowl in southwest Sydney.

Police probe potential second mistaken identity hit

A potentially innocent man has been killed at a home with links to organised crime in the second fatal shooting in Sydney in as many days.

State gun ownership cap on the cards, if numbers align

A state is expected to soon debate a proposal to restrict the number of guns a person can own as part of reforms sparked by the Bondi mass shooting.

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ACT second jurisdiction to join federal gun buyback

The ACT has joined NSW in agreeing to a federal gun buyback set up after the Bondi shooting massacre but other states are yet to be convinced.

Buyback could leave gun owners thousands out of pocket

Farmers are concerned they will be left thousands out of pocket when they surrender their guns under the scheme.

Philippine student live-streamed fatal school shooting

The Philippines has been shocked by another school shooting in weeks, as a student videoed himself fatally shooting a classmate before killing himself.

Car involved in 'drive-bys' before underworld shooting

Vision has been released of a car suspected of being used in the targeted shooting of an alleged gangland boss outside his suburban home.

Another state shoots down funding national gun buyback

Another state has rejected the national gun buyback, saying it won’t divert money from core services and cost‑of‑living pressures to a federal scheme.

Beleaguered gun buyback costly, inaction costlier: PM

A state leader is prepared to fight an election on his decision to sign up to the federal government's beleaguered national gun buyback scheme.

No bail as grenades, guns found in suburban safehouse

A man is staying in prison after police uncovered six grenades, eight firearms and a multi-million-dollar stash of drugs in an alleged suburban safehouse.

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