A watchdog has recommended new “rules of engagement” with violent crowds, and says even use of firearms could be justified if lives are at risk

Police in Birmingham have released this extraordinary footage of people firing shots at lines of police officers during the riots. As Iain Duncan Smith says in this week's magazine, the riots were a wake-up call. This video shows what looks like gangs, about three dozen of them in masks, not just trashing buildings but discharging firearms at England's famously unarmed police. The West M...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) just promoted three of the key supervisors behind Fast and Furious, the Obama Administration's program to ship weapons across the Mexican border to armaments deprived Mexican drug lords. All three have been promoted and given new management positions at the agency's DC headquarters. They are William G. McMahon, who was the ATF's depu...

Gun ownership is a non-controversial subject in Norwegian politics. I wonder if this will continue to be the case. Maybe so: according to the link, there are just under half a million people granted the right to own firearms under...

Over the July Fourth weekend, there was a major development in the Fast and Furious investigation when BATF head KenMelman made a surprise July 4th appearance before Darrel Issa and Chuck Grassley's congressional committee put together to investigate Fast and Furious. That operation involved BATF(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agents allowing straw purchasers to buy over two thousan...

In a surprise move, Ken Melman, the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) has been given clearance by the Department of Justice to testify to Congress on his role in Operation Fast and Furious, which had BATF agents allowing straw purchasers to buy over two thousand automatic weapons and then smuggle them illegally across the border to Mexican Drug cartels. The operation led t...

The US DOJ had a really bright idea. They put together an operation known as 'Fast and Furious' that allowed almost 2,000 illegally purchased weapons to be sold in gunshops to known straw buyers - people who legally purchase firearms and then sell them to unauthorized third parties - in Arizona and sent to Mexico, where the DOJ knew they were almost certainly going to end up in the hands...

Gun laws are a "complex and confused" mess and tighter controls on firearms licences are required, a committee of MPs reports.

For the last few days I have been far out in the Virginia hinterlands at the farm of a fellow libertarian with Belfast ties. In fact, his daughter was born there and it made for rather interesting evenings, chatting about firearms, how to live independently... and talking about Belfast pubs, pub owners and musicians we knew in common. It goes almost without saying that I, being a Samizdatista of t...

MPs are to investigate the laws on gun control after two recent high profile fatal shooting incidents.