Stockholm:
Sweden said Friday that he will present a bill to amend the laws of arms and restrict access to semi -automatic weapons after the worst mass shooting of the country this week.
The measure occurs after an armed man killed 10 people on Tuesday before apparently committing suicide in an education center in Obro, west of Stockholm.
“There are certain types of weapons that are as dangerous that they must only possess for civil purposes as an exception,” said the government in a statement.
The Democrats of Sweden, who support the government, had agreed to a proposal to amend the laws, including the restriction of access to semi -automatic weapons, according to the statement.
“The horrible act of violence in Obebro raises several key questions about arms legislation,” he said.
Police have said that several long neighborhood weapons and 10 empty magazines were recovered next to the alleged gunman.
The Police have not specified the types of recovered weapons, but confirmed that he had a license for four weapons, three of which were found beside him.
The government said specifically wanted to restrict access to semi-automatic weapons such as AR-15, citing it as “an example of a weapon that is compatible with great magazines and can cause a lot of damage in a short time.”
He pointed out that the Sweden Environmental Protection Agency had approved its use for hunting in 2023 and said he wanted to discard this.
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The government also said that it would also change the rules to assess whether a person was in a position to possess firearms.
He referred to a recent probe that had found that “several of the requirements that are currently taken into account in the suitability evaluation for a license to own a firearm are not clear enough.”
The same investigation, whose results were presented to the government in May, said that “it cannot be ruled out” that violent people could obtain a hunting license to “obtain access to semi -automatic rifles that can be easily equipped with great magazines.”
The coalition government said it would also instruct the police and social services that intensify their cooperation to inform people who are not medically suitable for having a firearm.
Police have said they were still working to establish a reason for the shooting.
Anna Bergqvist, who directs the investigation, told AFP on Thursday that there were “multiple nationalities, different genres and different ages” among those killed.
BroadCaster TV4 published a video filmed by a student hidden in a bathroom in which the shots can be heard outside and a person can be heard shouting: “You will leave Europe!”
The Syrian embassy said that at least two of the victims were Syrian, while the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that a Bosnian woman had been killed.
Some of the victims had not yet been identified, but the police told AFP that it was possible that the work could be completed on Friday.
The Swedish press has identified the suspect as Rickard Andersson, 35, but there has not been an official confirmation.
Swedish media reports painted an image of the suspect as a local man who had been living as an inmate and suffered psychological problems.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a union feed).
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