US President Donald Trump has endorsed stricter gun control measures, including raising the minimum age to 21 for possessing a broader range of weapons than at present.

President Donald Trump has said that if one of the victims of the latest school shooting in the US, a football coach, had been armed "he would have shot and that would have been the end of it".

Even in the United States, which has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world, fully automatic weapons remain rare.

Latest:: Pupils from several Florida high schools have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with students from a nearby school where 17 people were gunned down in their classrooms on Valentine's Day.

Rihanna has called for an end to gun violence, after her cousin was shot dead in Barbados.

The move comes after the Air Force failed to report the criminal history of a gunman who killed more than two dozen people at a Texas church.

John Lewis was a disciple of Martin Luther King and marched on Washington in 1963. Last week, he led a sit-down protest in Congress, says Peniel Joseph

A Michigan mother who thought her daughter was simply playing while standing on a toilet seat has revealed she was unaware the three-year-old was practicing a drill for what to do in the event of an active shooter entering a school.

President Barack Obama has moved to tighten gun laws in the US following a series of mass shootings, claiming his plan would save lives.

Barack Obama has urged all Americans to join him in the fight to change the country's gun laws

France and Belgium will urge their European partners on Friday to tighten gun laws, toughen border security and choke off funds to extremist groups, a week after at least 129 people were killed in attacks in Paris.

Gun owners have defended their right to use semi-automatic rifles despite Garda calls that they be banned for fear they could fall into the hands of criminals or the mentally unstable.

Gun owners have accused gardaí of hiding information on firearm thefts to make the threat to public safety appear worse.