VIENNA, Austria — In a major step against international crime, the Clinton administration is co-sponsoring a U.N. resolution aimed at curbing illicit trafficking in firearms. It is the first time the United States has endorsed a U.N. resolution on firearms regulation, U.S. officials said. The action came after a week of intense negotiation in Vienna among the delegates to the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Late Thursday, the Clinton... (GunPolicy.org)

Two more police officers have been suspended in an inquiry into suspected fraud in the firearms compensation scheme which followed the Government ban on handguns. A total of seven South Yorkshire officers and one civilian member of staff have now been suspended since police launched an investigation last November after internal auditing revealed irregularities. The latest to be suspended are based in Barnsley. The Home Office, which has been dealing with about 500... (GunPolicy.org)

WOODBRIDGE, New Jersey — The voice on the telephone was cryptic: "My friend has a gun … She wants to shoot someone … You better kill her … That's the only way you are going to stop her … " Click. It was 1:23 a.m. and Catherine Falzarano had begun her suicide. For depression, she had Thorazine, a drug prescribed for mental instability. For comfort, she had three cats, Brandy, Diamond and Princess. For love, she had Dean, her husband of nine months, a police... (GunPolicy.org)

YOSSET, New York — Only after pumping three bullets into Moshe Pergament did officer Anthony Sica learn the brutal truth: He had killed a college student who had threatened him with nothing more than a toy gun. Sica stood over the bleeding body wondering what had happened here. A 19-year-old had raced his brand-new Honda Accord up and down the Long Island Expressway in a rainstorm for 40 minutes, sideswiping cars and trucks. He had pulled over as soon as the police... (GunPolicy.org)

SANAA — Yemen on Saturday launched a campaign to disarm citizens after a grenade blast at a mosque in the capital Sanaa on Friday killed two people and wounded 27. Witnesses in the capital said security forces patrolled the streets and set up checkpoints in search of illegal weapons. The campaign was confirmed by a security official. Yemen launched two similar campaigns in 1997. Illicit guns, mainly Kalashnikov automatic rifles, are openly carried in Yemen, one of... (GunPolicy.org)