An Italian mayor has vowed to pay citizens €250 towards the cost of a gun after accusing the country's government of failing to protect 'honest Italians' with its 'jail-emptying laws'. Gianluca Buonanno, the Northern League mayor of Borgosesia in Piedmont, northern Italy, announced his plans for a new firearm fund on Facebook. He said he was doing so to allow people to 'defend themselves from delinquents, who the government is privileging'.