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Bill to tighten gun laws in wake of Erfurt passes
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Bill to tighten gun laws in wake of Erfurt school shooting passes lower house of parliament
Fri Jun 14, 5:38 AM ET
BERLIN - A bill to tighten German gun laws drawn up quickly after a bloody school shooting in which 17 people died cleared the lower house of parliament Friday.
The bill proposes outlawing pump-action shotguns. Other changes include raising the minimum age for legal possession of a firearm for recreational use to 18 to 21. Hobby shooters under age 25 would have to present a doctor's note confirming their mental suitability to apply for a gun license.
The minimum age for hunters, who already have to pass a separate exam, would be raised from 16 to 18.
Government and opposition politicians pledged the restrictions after an expelled pupil stormed through his former school in the eastern city of Erfurt in April, gunning down 16 teachers and students before turning the gun on himself.
The 19-year-old killer, Robert Steinhaeuser, held licenses for the pump-action rifle he carried into the school as well as the pistol that police say he used to gun down his victims and then turned on himself.
Steinhaeuser was an active member of a local gun club, though club officials said they noticed nothing strange about his behavior before he embarked on one of the world's worst school shootings.
Lawmakers voted the bill through on a show of hands Friday after its details were agreed in an all-party committee on Wednesday. The upper house is expected to give its approval next week so that the bill can become law.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_wo_en_po/germany_gun_laws_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Fri Jun 14, 5:38 AM ET
BERLIN - A bill to tighten German gun laws drawn up quickly after a bloody school shooting in which 17 people died cleared the lower house of parliament Friday.
The bill proposes outlawing pump-action shotguns. Other changes include raising the minimum age for legal possession of a firearm for recreational use to 18 to 21. Hobby shooters under age 25 would have to present a doctor's note confirming their mental suitability to apply for a gun license.
The minimum age for hunters, who already have to pass a separate exam, would be raised from 16 to 18.
Government and opposition politicians pledged the restrictions after an expelled pupil stormed through his former school in the eastern city of Erfurt in April, gunning down 16 teachers and students before turning the gun on himself.
The 19-year-old killer, Robert Steinhaeuser, held licenses for the pump-action rifle he carried into the school as well as the pistol that police say he used to gun down his victims and then turned on himself.
Steinhaeuser was an active member of a local gun club, though club officials said they noticed nothing strange about his behavior before he embarked on one of the world's worst school shootings.
Lawmakers voted the bill through on a show of hands Friday after its details were agreed in an all-party committee on Wednesday. The upper house is expected to give its approval next week so that the bill can become law.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_wo_en_po/germany_gun_laws_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878