Crime Control Digest
WELLINGTON, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand is taking steps to ensure gun ownership is restricted to responsible users and to stop the flow of guns into the black market, as legislation is introduced to the parliament on Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. The bill includes a new ...
"Your crimes are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment," said Judge Cameron Mander on Thursday, handing down New Zealand's maximum sentence to the man who carried out the country's worst gun ma...
The law blocks gun sales to those convicted of abusing unmarried intimate partners and cracks down on gun sales to purchasers convicted of domestic violence. "Illicit arms trafficking is already a crime in the United States," Ebrard said. "You have to start establishing cri...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There were no clear signs that an attack last year on two New Zealand mosques was imminent, but police should have done a better job vetting the lone gunman when he applied for a gun license, and intelligence agencies should have focused more on threats ...
Is there a slight possibility that people were actually murdered? I find it doubtful, to be honest. The piles of bodies, the turning of the camera when people are being “shot” in the corner, the lack of bullet holes in the walls and blood splatter on the bodies, and the “cui bono...
Mendicino said with gun crime on the rise, the government believes it has no choice but to bring in new legislation and this is the Liberals’ solution to the problem. Article content “We’ve looked at the data and the data says unequivocally that gun crime is ...
And we have firsthand evidence from Colorado and Connecticut that gun owners engage in widespread civil disobedience. But people elsewhere in the world also have a bit of rebelliousness. Here are some excerpts from a column in Reason about what’s been happening in New Zealand. New Zealand’s...
The attack, apparently broadcast live for a time on social media, is the deadliest mass killing in New Zealand since 1943. Ardern labeled the carnage a terrorist attack and has vowed to change the country’s gun laws as a result. Police presence in Christchurch and around the country was h...
Gunning for the criminals A new ballistics database to be based in a top secret Birmingham location will give gun crime investigators an unprecedented glimpse of the "story behind the weapon". Birmingham Mail Crime Correspondent MARK COWAN takes a look behind the scenes....