The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism.

The gunman had already shot several students at close range when he stood inches from Lacey Scroggins and demanded she stand up.

Officials have released the names of the nine victims who died after a mass shooting in Oregon Thursday morning.

If the mass murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn’t lead to stricter gun control measures, the murder of nine people at an Oregon community college probably won't either.

Hunting deer, elk and bear in the surrounding hills and fishing for salmon and steelhead have strong followings in southern Oregon's timber country, made famous by Western writer Zane Gray, who counted the North Umpqua River his favourite place to fish.

The gunman who killed 10 people at an Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer.

Guns may not kill people. But research shows people with guns kill people - with greater frequency and more fatalities in America than anywhere else in the world.

At least 10 people were killed Thursday after a gunman opened fire at a community college in Oregon.