Mr Wayne LaPierre (head of the NRA), if only a good guy with a gun is capable of stopping a bad guy with a gun, how are you going to stop this ex Navy, ex Police Officer "good guy" with a gun???

A man believed to be a former Los Angeles police officer accused of three murders has been involved in a shoot-out with police, reports say.

The suspect exchanged shots with officers in California's Big Bear Lake region and barricaded himself inside a cabin, local police said.

Two officers have been wounded by gunfire and airlifted to hospital.

Police say they have found charred remains in the rubble of a burnt-down cabin where a murder suspect had been hiding.

Ex-policeman Christopher Dorner, accused of killing three people, was thought to have barricaded himself in and exchanged fire with police.

A single gunshot was later heard inside the building, which then began to burn.

Forensic tests are to be carried out to determine if the remains are those of Mr Dorner.