TBILISI — Four people were killed and seven wounded in Zugdidi, western Georgia, on Sunday when an unidentified man opened sub-machine gun fire at a funeral procession. It was the burial of Gocha Esebua, the 29-years-old head of a terrorist group that took hostage U.N. officers in February 1998. According to information of the Zugdidi police, the procession came under fire several hundreds of meters away from the cemetery. Esebua was killed on March 31 in a fire... (GunPolicy.org)

New York City's murder rate continues to fall, dropping to 138 for the first three months of this year as compared with 201 at the same time last year. If the rate stays on track, the city will experience its lowest number of killings since 1961. Great news, needless to say. We have one question to ask those who have been arguing for two decades that the spiraling crime rate would be cured by strict national gun-control laws: Where did all the guns go? Granted, not... (GunPolicy.org)

OSLO, Norway — With words like path-breaking, courageous and visionary, representatives from African and Western nations, including the United States, have resoundingly endorsed measures to control the spread of light weapons, the major cause of death in today's wars. The action came at a two-day assembly in Oslo called to advance a proposed moratorium on the export, import and manufacture of light weapons in West Africa, and to consider how that moratorium could be... (GunPolicy.org)

TBILISI — Five mourners were killed and eight wounded in former Soviet Georgia on Sunday when gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession for an opposition figure who took several United Nations personnel hostage a month ago. A Georgian police spokesman told Reuters in the capital Tbilisi they had no indication of the identity of the attackers, who strafed the procession at Zugdidi in western Georgia with automatic weapons and also threw a hand grenade. It was not... (GunPolicy.org)

WASHINGTON — President Clinton will permanently ban a practice that allowed the importing of popular semiautomatic assault weapons such as the AK-47 and the Uzi, the Washington Post reported in its Monday edition. Quoting unidentified administration officials, the newspaper said Clinton would close what he regarded as a major loophole in the nation's gun control laws. The president would declare that 59 models of military- style rifles previously certified for... (GunPolicy.org)