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Austria tightens gun laws

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Three months after a shooting spree at a grammar school in Graz, the Austrian Nationalrat has now tightened that country's gun laws. Germany also wants to tighten the licensing requirement for certain compressed air weapons, which can have a lethal effect as a result of new technical developments.


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By Benjamin Kanthak, Wolfgang Mueller

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Three months after a shooting spree at a grammar school in Graz, the Austrian Nationalrat has now tightened that country's gun laws. Germany also wants to tighten the licensing requirement for certain compressed air weapons, which can have a lethal effect as a result of new technical developments.


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