The following are editorial opinions from newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers.

Chicago Sun-Times –on Chicago's handgun ban

On June 28, the US Supreme Court overturned a 28-year-old ban on handguns in Chicago that, in the most important ways, wasn't working anyway. Forgive us, though, if we're not quite ready to see Chicago become the largely unregulated gun-toting town of NRA dreams. That Dirty Harry stuff works mostly in the movies.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling, likely to prompt challenges to gun bans across the country, appears to leave the door open to more limited restrictions. ...

In a five to four decision, the court ruled that Chicago's gun ban, one of the strictest in the nation, violates the Second Amendment right of citizens to bear arms, echoing a 2008 decision that struck down parts of a Washington, D.C., gun law. ...

Despite Chicago's ban, criminals have had no trouble getting their hands on guns, as a recent rash of shootings — 54 in a single weekend — made clear.

And while Chicago's annual murder rate has dropped since the gun ban was enacted in 1982, it's unclear how much credit the ban deserves. Similar declines have been seen in cities with less restrictive gun laws. ...

Our hope is that Chicago will adopt gun regulations similar to those passed in the city of Washington, D.C., after its gun ban was struck down in 2008. We'd like to see training requirements for gun owners and strict registration rules that deny guns to people with a history of mental illness, domestic violence or DUIs.

We'd like to see limits on the number of guns a person could buy and a requirement that gun owners buy liability insurance. We also urge Congress to redouble efforts to control guns on the national level, where such controls might be more effective. ...