After Australia's worst mass shooting in 1996, it took the government 12 days to ban semi-automatic weapons, organise a gun buyback scheme and introduce a licensing system to weed out people considered unfit to carry a weapon.

A gunman shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook 13 years ago, marking the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. elementary school.

Video shared with ABC News shows the moment a heroic bystander wrestled a gun away from the hands of one of the alleged shooters at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday.

The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, claimed: ‘this isn’t a gun problem, it’s an ideology problem’

As the sounds of bullets rang out and the bodies fell, the young mother threw herself on top of her 5-year-old son and prayed. “Please don’t let us die,” 33-year-old Rebecca begged God from her hiding place under a table in a park overlooking Bondi,

Nine-word response from top cop shocks after he was asked why Bondi Beach gunman had a firearm.