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# Guns

All time
# Kansas
Three killed, 14 wounded after man storms workplace with "assault-style" weapon
The man was shot dead by police.
# Michigan
14-year-old girl among seven killed in Michigan shooting spree
Police said they believe the shootings were random and not targeting particular people
# Bataclan
Eagles of Death Metal singer says "everybody" has to have guns
Jesse Hughes was speaking ahead of the band’s concert in Paris’s Olympia Theatre tonight.
# Gun Crime
Hundreds of gun licences revoked in Ireland in last three years
Licences can be revoked for a number of reasons, including that the person has no good reason for needing a gun.
# disarming people
Norwegian police are losing their guns as there are "no grounds" for remaining armed
The Scandinavian country’s police force had been fully armed, due to a heightened terror threat, since 2014,
# North Carolina
Three-year-old boy shoots himself dead with father's handgun
The boy found the gun under the cash register at his father’s store.
# imaginary fiction
Obama at CNN town hall meeting: I am not out to get your guns
The US president took on the gun lobby in a forum televised on prime-time CNN last night.
# Guns and Ammo
These weapons are just some of those seized from "focused" dissident republicans in the last few years
Gardaí believe the groups are still recruiting.
# Emotional
Watch: Obama in tears as he announces plan on gun control
The US President became emotional as he remembered 20 elementary school children shot dead three years ago in Newtown, Connecticut.
# oregon
Armed militia refuse to leave government property after men they were "defending" hand themselves in
Police urged the protesters to “Go home, be with your own families and end this peacefully.”
# Mass Shootings
What difference will Obama's new gun control plan make?
The US president announced a series of executive actions to curb gun violence yesterday.
# Mass Shootings
Obama and Hilary want crackdown on gun violence ... Trump, not so much
Republicans aren’t so keen on the President’s plans.
# Abortion
Trump spokeswoman threatens to 'wear a foetus' on TV following backlash over bullet necklace
Katrina Pierson said it would raise awareness about abortion.
# North Carolina
18-year-old man who 'pointed a gun at off-duty policeman' shot dead in crowded shopping centre
The shooting was caused by a long-standing dispute
# Gun Free UT
A gun rights group is holding a "fake mass shooting" at a Texas college this week
“It’s a fake mass shooting, and we’ll use fake blood.”
# everything is awesome
This newspaper's front page about gun control is amazing
The New York Daily News has the NRA in its sights.
# Concealed Carry
University president tells students to get guns to "end those Muslims before they walk in and kill"
His comments were rebuked by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe as “rash and repugnant”.
# New York
Man arrested with guns and fake badge was posing as an air marshal
He was in court yesterday.
# California
Two San Bernardino attackers identified, 14 confirmed dead in shooting
The shooters – who are believed to have been married – were killed in a police shootout hours after the attack.
# man's best friend
A man in France has been shot by his dog
The dog has not been charged by police.
Chicago "on the tipping point" as police get ready to release video of officer shooting black teenager 16 times
Laquan McDonald was shot in October last year.
# Investigation
Mountjoy prison went into lockdown after cannabis grinder found on a landing
All prisoners were locked in their cells.
# Raid
Guns, bullets, silencers, and cocaine found during garda search
A house was raided in Clondalkin last night.
# Drug Crime
Photos: The €3 million worth of drugs and guns seized in Tallaght
Two rifles and a shotgun with a silencer and telescopic sights were also found in the seizure.
# Sheriff Street
Seven years on, Gavin McCarthy's murderer has never been brought to justice
The 21 year old was shot outside a Chinese takeaway on Sheriff Street in Dublin.
# South Carolina
Two-year-old finds gun in car, shoots grandmother in the back
Local police say that there may be charges levelled.
# walter scott
Family of black motorist shot by police in shocking video reaches pay settlement
A South Carolina patrolman is charged with the murder for Walter Scott.
# gun control
Donald Trump says gun laws are not to blame for Oregon shooting
The presidential hopeful said he felt that mental health issues were the bigger issue.
# America
A history of violence: 10 dead in a US college shooting is not an aberration
294 shootings in 267 days…
# Florida
Three people killed in separate US shooting
The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
# Uncle Psalm
An American gunmaker put a Bible verse on a 'Christian' assault rifle so that no 'Muslim terrorist' can use it
It features a psalm and a cross.
# Houston
Man accidentally shoots himself dead while posing for a selfie with a gun
Police say he was “handling a gun he believed to be unloaded.”
# Chicago
Police hunt for three suspects after officer is shot dead
The man was a father of four.
# catch em all
Boston Police thwart potential gun attack at Pokemon World Championship
Police say the two men carrying the guns had threatened violence.
# Alabama
Man "may have been shot dead by his two-year-old son"
Hoover PD said that the man and the child were the only occupants of the home.
# Afghanistan
A country full of AK-47s is banning toy guns
Almost two hundred children have been injured by toys guns.
# Los Angeles
Man found dead in car was "alien-human hybrid" who had 1,200 guns
And may have been a spy.
# the rising
'"They are soldiers...": Defence Forces WILL have guns during the Easter 2016 parade
Minister for Defence Simon Coveney said the Defence Forces will be central to practically all of the events that will happen next year.
# Clonsilla
Man charged over mistaken identity shooting in Clonsilla
Two other men arrested in connection with the murder were released without charge.
# Mass Shooting
Charleston church shooting suspect charged with nine murders
Dylann Storm Roof was arrested yesterday after allegedly shooting nine people dead.