The Federal Government last night vowed to go ahead with its handgun buyback in Victoria from Tuesday despite the scheme being delayed until October in New South Wales and South Australia. Justice Minister Chris Ellison also revealed that about 4000 types of firearms would be banned, a significant upgrading from the previous estimate of 500. But despite the buyback starting in five days' time, Senator Ellison was unable to provide the final list of banned guns or the... (GunPolicy.org)

The Government's $87 million buy-back of newly outlawed handguns was tonight given the go ahead by the Senate to begin next week. The states and territories agreed to tighten gun laws after two people were shot dead at Monash University in October last year. The states will ban a range of small handguns, handguns with a calibre above .38 and those with a magazine capacity exceeding 10 rounds. The Federal Government has agreed to fund around two thirds of the cost of... (GunPolicy.org)

The June 14 deadline for Iraqi citizens to turn in banned weapons worked about as poorly as any gun buy-back program in the United States. After the two-week program ended, a guard at one of the designated places to turn in guns said, "We have had plenty of reporters, but no weapons come in." American soldiers are laying down their lives to protect Iraqi citizens, and the last thing that we want to do is put them in harm's way. On Tuesday, six British soldiers were... (GunPolicy.org)

There was a time, three years ago this past May, when the cause drew a crowd. Hundreds of thousands of activists, joined by the influential likes of Susan Sarandon and Rosie O'Donnell, standing together on the Capitol lawn, wearing T-shirts and pink ribbons and photo buttons of lost sons and lost daughters. The Million Mom March against gun control burst onto the scene with a nervous vengeance. And what a story it was. A young suburban mother, a part-time staffer on... (GunPolicy.org)

A divided appeals court Tuesday dealt another blow to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's lawsuit against the gun industry for marketing tactics that allegedly contribute to gun crimes, saying a trial court had properly dismissed the suit. Ruling 3-1, the Appellate Division, First Department, said the attorney general had failed to state a viable claim under a public nuisance theory, and warned that if the court had allowed the suit to proceed it would in effect open... (GunPolicy.org)