Belgium: Gun owners fight victim disarmament law: "The union of gun owners UNACT is taking legal action in the Arbitration Tribunal against the federal government's recently imposed tighter gun control law. UNACT claims the new law undermines the legal certainty of gun owners and traders. Some 10,000 gun owners have signed a petition demanding the abolition of part of the new legislation, VRT reported on Monday. The new weapons law was introduced on 8 June in response to the racist shootings in Antwerp in May in which two people were killed. Currently, it is not possible to buy a gun without a permit. Gun owners are prepared to accept that stipulation."


UK: Water pistol game "irresponsible": "Contestants in a giant game where players roam London shooting each other with water pistols, risk committing criminal offences, police have warned. Street Wars is a three-week contest in which players are given the name, address and a picture of a target. Their aim is to hunt them down and squirt them with water. But police said those taking part were irresponsible because some water pistols look like real guns and could lead to armed police being deployed."


Australia: Bashed guard "feared for life" : "The security guard Karen Brown said she feared for her life as she was bashed with a knuckleduster and dragged across a hotel car park by her backpack, which contained about $40,000. Brown told police she remembered the robber 'pounding' her across the head -- then she saw white -- but does not recall chasing him to a car and fatally shooting him in the head as he sat in the front seat with the window up, a court has heard. Brown went on trial yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court for the murder of William Aquilina, 25, who had attempted to rob her outside the Moorebank Hotel on July 26, 2004 as she returned to her car. She has pleaded not guilty to murder and the lesser charge of manslaughter."