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Police tape off an area in Washington. Last year’s active-shooter carnage left 103 people dead across the US. Photo: AFP

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2021 saw most US shootings in 20 years, FBI says

Last year’s active-shooter carnage left 103 people dead and 140 wounded in the biggest number of such attacks on record, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

24 May 2022 - 10:24AM

Gun control must include background checks, opposition US politicians tell Trump

16 Sep 2019 - 6:01AM

Opinion | Is New Zealand welcoming of all races? Look at what its politicians have said

18 Mar 2019 - 4:38PM

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Trump bans bump stock gun modification used in Las Vegas massacre

Bump stocks allow a semi-automatic rifle to continuously fire like a fully automatic machine gun. The devices will be illegal to possess in the US from late March

19 Dec 2018 - 2:50AM

A bump stock device (right), that fits on a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing speed, making it similar to a fully automatic rifle, is shown next to a AK-47 semi-automatic rifle at a gun store in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Las Vegas reflects and moves forward 1 year after shooting

Around Las Vegas, there are scattered remembrances of the horrors that turned Las Vegas into a nightmare of death and despair

1 Oct 2018 - 2:00AM

Banality of evil: hotel footage shows Vegas gunman amassing arsenal

23 Mar 2018 - 1:57PM

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Las Vegas shooting victims’ families receive big payout from funding drive

Victims fund spokesman said the non-profit expects to pay 100 per cent of the funds raised, with payouts beginning on Monday

3 Mar 2018 - 5:59PM

Photos and notes adorn a wall at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in Las Vegas. A US$31.5 million victims' fund that started as an online GoFundMe effort plans to pay US$275,000 to families of the 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Photo: AP

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Trump wants ban on bump-stock gun mods used in Las Vegas shooting

21 Feb 2018 - 6:23AM

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Arms maker discounts Vegas massacre device as tribute to Trump

19 Feb 2018 - 12:45PM

Man charged over armour-piercing bullet sale to Las Vegas shooter

3 Feb 2018 - 10:54PM

Douglas Haig sold ammunition to the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the October 1 Las Vegas shooting. Photo: AP

Vegas hotel staff met ‘normal’ gunman more than 10 times

6 Jan 2018 - 10:56PM

People scramble for shelter after gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas. Photo: AFP

Opinion | Jerusalem move shows Donald Trump is neither stupid nor mad

12 Dec 2017 - 1:27AMvideocam

Las Vegas shooting victim now target of death threats

28 Oct 2017 - 8:36PM

Brother of Las Vegas killer arrested for child porn

26 Oct 2017 - 4:25AM

Photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Bruce Paddock. Authorities said the brother of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of possessing child pornography. Photo: LAPD via AP

Vegas shooting hasn’t changed America’s opinion on guns

21 Oct 2017 - 8:19PMvideocam

An advertisement for ‘The Vegas Machine Gun Experience’ in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: AFP

Video | Hotel guard, shot by Las Vegas gunman, breaks his silence

19 Oct 2017 - 7:35PM

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Manhunt after US gunman kills three workshop colleagues

19 Oct 2017 - 7:44AM

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Las Vegas hotel disputes police timeline of massacre

13 Oct 2017 - 2:31PM

Workers board up a broken window at the Mandalay Bay hotel, from where Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip. Photo: Reuters

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Outside In | ‘There’s no excuse for the American gun culture’

‘There is something mysterious and unique going on in the American brain that condones such a tragic national masochism,’ writes David Dodwell

13 Oct 2017 - 10:32PM

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Las Vegas gunman shot at aviation fuel tanks for diversion

10 Oct 2017 - 11:19PM

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What to do with Room 32-135? A dilemma in wake of Vegas massacre

10 Oct 2017 - 11:19PM

A smashed window in Room 32-135 of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino bears testimony to the mass slaughter conducted by Stephen Paddock, as he fired from the room into a crowd below on October 1. Photo: AFP

As cowboy Trump leads trigger-happy US, should the world worry?

9 Oct 2017 - 7:34PMvideocam

DNA is destiny: and this is what the world, not to mention China, must be prepared to live with. It is the one very big takeaway from the Vegas tragedy. Illustration: Craig Stephens

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US church raffles semi-automatic rifles, days after Vegas massacre

9 Oct 2017 - 3:04PMvideocam

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Video | NRA chief refuses to commit to outright ban on ‘bump stocks’ after Las Vegas shooting

8 Nov 2017 - 5:22PM

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Note in Las Vegas gunman’s hotel room had shooting calculations

8 Oct 2017 - 8:53PM

Gunman’s hotel suite gave him an ideal perch from which to carry out his attack on a crowd some 365 metres away

Parenting: teens

After Vegas massacre, how safe is it for our children to study abroad?

8 Oct 2017 - 6:37PMvideocam

A woman wipes away tears during a memorial service for Charleston Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was killed during the Route 91 music festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 5. Photo: Reuters

Police ask public for help to find motive for Vegas massacre

7 Oct 2017 - 9:31PM

Just Saying | Forget terrorists – Americans are their own worst enemies

7 Oct 2017 - 11:04PM

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