Sweden wants to tighten gun laws after mass shooting

Sweden said Friday it wants to tighten its weapon laws, pursuing a lone gunman’s wide shooting of 10 radical Tuesday with his licensed firearms astatine an acquisition halfway successful Orebro, astir 200 kilometers westbound of Stockholm.

After sidesplitting 7 women and 3 men betwixt the ages of 28 and 68, the attacker seemingly killed himself with 1 of his weapons.

The conjugation authorities said successful a connection that it has travel to an statement connected a connection restricting entree to semiautomatic weapons, specifically citing the AR-15 rifle, which has been utilized successful respective U.S. shootings. It is "an illustration of a limb that is compatible with ample magazines and tin origin a batch of harm successful a abbreviated time," the connection said.

"There are definite types of weapons that are truthful unsafe that they should lone beryllium possessed for civilian purposes arsenic an exception," the authorities said.

While it is not instantly wide what weapons were utilized successful Tuesday’s shooting, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Reuters a prohibition connected the AR-15 would beryllium a "preventative measure."

Sweden’s authorities besides called for a reassessment of the requirements for hunting licenses that would let Swedes to person an AR-15, which could past beryllium used, with immoderate adjustments, successful a wide shooting.

AR-15 rifles person been allowed successful Sweden for hunting since 2023, Reuters reported and since past 3,500 licenses person been issued.

Police person not revealed what weapons were utilized successful this week’s incidental but person said that 3 rifles recovered adjacent the suspect’s assemblage were licensed to him. Police person seized a 4th weapon besides licensed to the suspect.

Police accidental they person not determined a motive for the shootings. However, Broadcaster TV4 has shown a video changeable by a pupil hiding successful a bath during the ordeal. Someone tin beryllium heard successful the video shouting, "You volition permission Europe."

The constabulary person not released the nationalities of the victims, nor person they released the individuality of the shooter.

The Swedish press, however, has identified the fishy arsenic 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, whom they picture arsenic a recluse with intelligence wellness issues.