Merredin gunman’s sister backs WA gun reforms
WA Parliament

Merredin gunman’s sister backs WA gun reforms

Speaking to 9 News Perth Jessica Sexton has thrown her support behind the West Australian government’s gun reforms and said her 31-year-old brother Nathan Sexton couldn’t get the mental help he needed in a struggling health system.

  • byMia Egerton-Warburton

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Police lay charges after shooting at Butler home
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Police

Police lay charges after shooting at Butler home

Police were called to a home on Marchwood Boulevard on Monday morning,where a man allegedly fired a shotgun through the window.

  • byDaile Cross andRebecca Peppiatt
Cop sentenced after pointing loaded pistol at colleague during Top Gun movie row
Courts

Cop sentenced after pointing loaded pistol at colleague during Top Gun movie row

Constable Dominic Gaynor pointed his gun at another officer at a Sydney CBD police station during a discussion about the Tom Cruise blockbuster.

  • byGeorgina Mitchell
Pilot threatened to shoot captain on flight,investigators say
USA

Pilot threatened to shoot captain on flight,investigators say

The indictment of Jonathan Dunn was issued just a few days before an off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit jump seat tried to shut down the engines of a Horizon Air jet in midflight.

‘He was cheeky and loved his family’:$1 million reward to help solve death of NSW teen
Crime

‘He was cheeky and loved his family’:$1 million reward to help solve death of NSW teen

Michael “Billy” Hegedus was 17 when he was shot at his home in state’s north in 1996,in what police believe was a robbery gone wrong.

  • bySarah Keoghan andAnthony Segaert
Gun limits on the cards as WA’s new firearm laws near fruition
WA Parliament

Gun limits on the cards as WA’s new firearm laws near fruition

The WA public will get its first look this week at the Cook government’s new gun laws,which would remove thousands of firearms from the community.

  • byHamish Hastie
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‘Back-to-back bullets’:Families caught in spate of drive-by shootings
Crime

‘Back-to-back bullets’:Families caught in spate of drive-by shootings

Baryalai Rahmanzai was sleeping next to his pregnant wife when their Dandenong home was sprayed with bullets. Now he feels less safe in Melbourne than in Afghanistan.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola andCameron Houston
Crackdown on WA gun owners coming to boost public safety
Crime

Crackdown on WA gun owners coming to boost public safety

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws by the WA Firearms Community Alliance outline a range of changes that would outlaw nearly 130,000 licensed firearms.

  • byMichael Genovese
Violent offenders and those with VROs to have guns taken away under new WA laws
Domestic violence

Violent offenders and those with VROs to have guns taken away under new WA laws

About 1000 West Australian gun owners subject to a violence restraining order or convicted of a serious crime will have their licenses revoked under new laws.

  • byHamish Hastie
Man hit by own bullet in freak shooting accident at Perth gun range
Emergency services

Man hit by own bullet in freak shooting accident at Perth gun range

The club said the bullet he fired ricocheted,hitting him in the abdomen. He was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital.

  • bySarah Brookes
‘Very high-powered’ guns forfeited ahead of WA buy-back deadline
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‘Very high-powered’ guns forfeited ahead of WA buy-back deadline

Three-quarters of Western Australia’s “very high-powered” firearms have already been surrendered ahead of this week’s deadline.

  • byMichael Genovese