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Hunter Biden's attorneys are suggesting that prosecutors bowed to pressure by Republicans, who have insisted the Democratic president's son got a sweetheart deal.

Ammunition, a stun gun, knuckle dusters and other items were also confiscated by officers during a raid at a Perth property.

Police have seized 80 guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition in a crackdown on gun owners allegedly linked to bikie gangs or other organised crime groups.

It's the latest and weightiest step yet in a long-running investigation into the United States president's son.

The deal ends a long-running Justice Department investigation into Biden's second son, who has acknowledged struggling with addiction following the 2015 death of his brother Beau Biden.

A Sydney man has been charged with a number of firearm offences and over his links to alleged criminal groups in a major sting almost a year in the making.

Police are searching for a gunman who shot five people at a United States medical facility.

Police are investigating the accidental shooting of an officer during a gun training session in rural Queensland.

If convicted over the offence, she could be jailed for up to 10 years.

Multiple triple zero calls, a helicopter search, and CCTV review led police to an empty, unlocked car in a church.

Part of a Gold Coast suburb has been opened again after being sealed off after multiple guns and grenades were handed into an office building.

A three-year-old girl fatally wounded her four-year-old sister in an unintentional shooting in the US state of Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

Two parents have been left seriously injured after they managed to get their three children out of their burning Queensland home unharmed.

The move comes after 20 shooting deaths in the state last year.

Officers received information about the manufacturing of methylamphetamine at a unit in Lidcombe, yesterday.

Concerned members of the public called police after they saw the man pointing a gun at cars driving along John Street in Cabramatta, about 9am.

It is still unknown how the shooters amassed the 'considerable weaponry' they used in the ambush attack at a Wieambilla property that killed six.

A tip-off from a member of the public has led to police busting a mega grow house in a Melbourne factory, with an estimated $3 million worth of cannabis plants.

A gun found inside a raw chicken at an airport security checkpoint has the TSA calling "personal fowl".

A man has been arrested after attempting to shoot Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's vice-president and former president.

NSW's homicide commander has declared criminals have "thrown the rulebook out the window" after two women were shot dead in south-west Sydney in a targeted "assassination".

The 27-year-old supermarket worker who was allegedly held up at gunpoint by the criminal says it's worrying the man was still in the public.

The semiautomatic assault rifle is able to fire 15 real bullets with the single pull of a trigger.

More than three tonnes of illegal and surrendered firearms will be melted down into steel and recycled in an attempt to keep weapons off the streets and out of the hands of criminals.

The stock prices of a number of prominent US firearm manufacturers have risen in the days following the mass school shooting in Texas that has since claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.

New South Wales wide raids have resulted in 45 arrests and drugs and firearms seized as police crack down on organised crime.

The revelation comes a day after a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others at the Tops Friendly Markets store in a predominantly Black neighbourhood in Buffalo.

More than a week after they disappeared, an Alabama inmate and former corrections officer have left few clues for investigators on their trail.

Australia's largest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang is under the spotlight after police arrested four senior bikies on firearm offences.

Illegal guns have been put on the firing line in a bid to crackdown on deadly suburban shootings in Perth.

All Victorian police and Protective Services Officers will be armed with tasers so they have more options to manage volatile situations, the government has announced.

A shooter is on the run after a pastry shop in Melbourne's north was targeted while a man was inside.

An investigation into gun trafficking has led to police seizing 20 guns, a large amount of drugs and cash, and arresting 11 men in a region in Victoria's east.

The accidental discharge of a passenger's weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic.

Investigators say it's too soon to determine whether charges will be filed.

Firearms experts say it is rare for someone to be killed from a prop gun while filming a movie or TV show.

A large stash of methylamphetamine, fantasy and MDMA has been found at a Logan property, along with thousands of dollars in cash and four handguns.

A type of toy gun has just been made illegal in Victoria, with a number of the life-like gun replicas having been used to commit serious crimes.

Police have issued a public safety warning as they call for help in their search to find a man who is wanted following a homicide in Melbourne's south-east.

Three men who planned to commit a terror attack in Melbourne's CBD, killing multiple people with a rifle, have each been sentenced to a decade behind bars.

A US man hailed as a hero for preventing further bloodshed after a gunman fatally shot a police officer in Arvada, Colorado, last week was himself fatally shot by police

A wanted Queensland man has been arrested after a dramatic crime spree across Bundaberg this morning, resulting in two separate car crashes, firearms and drugs being discovered.

Specialist firearm detectives have arrested 18 people in Geelong and its surrounds as part of a major crackdown on illegal guns and other weapons.

A man has been hospitalised after inadvertently shooting himself with an unregistered gun south-east of Melbourne.

A man bearing a rifle has been shot in the neck by police at the Entrance this morning.

Gel blasters have been ruled to count as firearms in South Australia, and aficionados aren't happy.

Gel blasters are hyper-realistic toys that use a battery or a spring to fire a gel ball made up primarily of water.

A drug addict sprung with pipe bombs and a makeshift gun workshop in his Melbourne home has been jailed.

Latrell Mitchell, 22, and Josh Addo-Carr, 24, were in Taree on the NSW mid-north coast at the weekend with ten other men, breaching social distancing restrictions.

Firearm access has been temporarily banned in Victoria after a surge in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic saw permit applications more than double.