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People with violent history or mental health issues should hang up their guns
People with histories of mental illness and violence are successfully challenging police objections to them being given guns.
- The Herald's View
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The Sydney suburbs that are home to thousands of guns
About 10,000 more people in NSW now have a gun licence compared to 2020. But it’s the handful of licences police fail to stop being granted which is alarming public policy experts.
- by Christopher Harris
Police to confiscate firearms from those accused of domestic violence
The state government has unveiled a further tightening of the new firearms laws following the double-murder suicide in Floreat in May, including empowering police to seize guns from those accused of threatening violence.
- by Jesinta Burton
WA’s domestic violence accused to lose access to guns in wake of Floreat murders
Anyone who is formally accused of family or domestic violence in Western Australia will be stripped of their firearms under proposed legal changes.
- by Holly Hales
Mother of Charlise’s alleged killer denies making up evidence to help son
Justin Stein’s mother insists she heard a “cheeky voice” in the background of a call that may have belonged to nine-year-old Charlise Mutten.
- by Sarah McPhee
How WA’s new gun laws might have applied to the Floreat murderer
Mark Bombara was a law-abiding gun owner – right up until he wasn’t. New laws under debate cannot bring back lost loved ones, but may alter the ownership landscape.
- by Hamish Hastie
‘He was law-abiding, until he wasn’t’: How murderer of WA women owned 13 guns
The Perth man who murdered two innocent women inside their suburban home on Friday was a licensed gun owner, it has been revealed.
- by Heather McNeill
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Crime
‘Floreat murders were domestic violence’: Minister at odds with police
Minister Reece Whitby has publicly revealed his disagreement with a decision of WA Police not to classify the murder of a mother and daughter by a man who attended their Floreat home on the hunt for his ex-wife a domestic violence incident.
- by Jesinta Burton
‘Lone wolf’ charged over attempted assassination of Slovak PM Robert Fico
The attempted assassination shocked the small central European nation, with leaders blaming the attack in part on extreme political polarisation that has divided the country.
- by Rob Harris
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World politics
Slovak PM in ‘serious but stable’ condition after assassination attempt
The central European country has been rocked after Robert Fico was shot five times in the stomach, arm and leg. A suspect has been detained.
- by Rob Harris
Man killed in drive-by shooting in south-east Melbourne
The man was found in a vehicle with a gunshot wound about 12.30am Saturday.
- by Najma Sambul and Chris Vedelago