The handgun case at Turner's Outdoorsman on Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley runs almost the width of the spacious store. The "nice little home beauties," as one sales clerk described a couple of the weapons, range in price from $89 to $689. I was standing next to a customer, a nice man in his 60s, who told another clerk he wanted a gun for home protection. They talked a language that gave me chills. "How effective is this gun?" "It's good for the soft tissue.... (GunPolicy.org)

AUCKLAND — The Government appeared to be waiting for another massacre to happen before it tightened gun laws, a gun control lobbyist said today. Philip Alpers was speaking in the wake of the death of 25-year-old Gian Paul Beange in an Ashburton house on Sunday. Beange, a former convict who was not licensed to own a firearm, wounded a constable in the shoulder with a semi-automatic rifle before turning the gun on himself. Mr Alpers noted that it was only in the... (GunPolicy.org)

A gun policy researcher Philip Alpers is critical of the Government for not banning military-style semi-automatic weapons like the one used to shoot a police officer in Ashburton on Sunday. Constable Mark Prendergast is undergoing more surgery in Christchurch Hospital today and his condition is described as comfortable. The man who shot him, 25-year-old Gian Paul Beange, killed himself after an eight-hour standoff with police. Philip Alpers says the Government has... (GunPolicy.org)

The police minister Jack Elder, admits the Government has made little progress in banning military style semi automatic rifles as recommended by a High Court judge in a firearms review last year. A military style rifle was used to shoot and wound a police officer in Ashburton on Sunday by a man who later used the gun to kill himself. Mr Elder says the firearms review carried out by Justice Thorp produced a long and complicated report that officials have had difficulty... (GunPolicy.org)

The police in Ashburton have revealed that both officers involved in a shooting in the town yesterday were armed at the time they were fired upon. The officers went to the house to serve a trespass notice, carrying holstered firearms. They went in connection with a domestic incident and carried arms because the woman involved told them there was a gun in the house. The woman's partner, 25-year-old Gian Paul Beange, shot one of the officers from a van at the back of the... (GunPolicy.org)

Anti-gun campaigner Phillip Alpers says the Police Minister risks being hammered by voters at the next election unless he speeds up moves to bring in tighter gun control. Concern over gun control has been raised since a military style rifle was used to shoot and wound a police officer in Ashburton on Sunday by a man who later used the gun to kill himself. But John Dyer from the Sporting Shooters Association says his organsation has warned that tougher gun laws will... (GunPolicy.org)

LOS ANGELES — A man has been arrested for allegedly selling five 30-mm cannons big enough to destroy a tank in seconds to federal agents posing as arms suppliers for a Colombian drug cartel, officials said on Tuesday. John Torres, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Los Angeles, described the British-made Aden cannons — which are fully automatic and normally mounted on fighter planes — as "devastating weapons of war" that could... (GunPolicy.org)

SACRAMENTO — California remains without an effective assault weapons ban after the Assembly failed to approve a measure that would rebuild the landmark Roberti-Roos law, now left in limbo by the courts. The vote Monday was supposed to be the showdown over changing the state's 1989 assault weapons ban. But after a debate about the meaning of the Second Amendment and the recent Arkansas schoolyard shooting, the bill lurched a few times and went nowhere. Two Los... (GunPolicy.org)