On Friday, the government said, days after at least the only 10 people were killed in an attack, and the worst mass shooting was launched in the country’s history.
A new legislation was already planned, based on the results of the 2022 investigation. After the mass fire on Tuesday, at an adult education center in the Central Orbro, it was quickly followed.
The official nature has not been added, but it is likely to enhance the basic requirements for obtaining a weapon license, and to direct the police to consider age and know weapons and skills as well as the criminal history of the person. It is also possible to call for broader examinations on the medical date of the applicant.
The new rules would make it difficult to reach semi-automatic attack weapons such as the AR-15 rifles. Fire weapons, lightweight and compatible with large magazines have been allowed, such as a hunting rifle in Sweden since 2023. Under the new act, access to weapons and similar types of firearms will be restricted.
The government said in a statement, “The rules for possession of weapons relate to the balance of society’s interest in preventing crime and accidents that involve firearms and pay attention to individuals and organizations that have the opportunity to possess firearms in justified cases,” the government said in a statement.
“We want to guarantee that only the right people have weapons in Sweden,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told Swedish News Agency TT during a working visit to Latvia.
The Minister of Justice, Gunnar Strummer, told a press conference on Friday that the next step is “a spell in a clear language, which will be taken into account in the legislation.”
The government then plans to pass a bill via parliament before the upcoming general elections in the country in 2026, according to Caroline Ospes, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice.
The attack in Orbro Sweden was shocked, which raised questions about how a Scandinavian state has long been linked to high living standards and low crime rates that indicate that it is one of the highest rates of violence in the European Union.
The government said in the statement, which declared the new laws: “The action of terrible violence in Orbro raises many major questions about weapons legislation.”
Although the police did not publicly confirm the identity of the gunman, investigators have followed four firearms licenses for the suspect. At the scene of the accident, the police said, they found the gunman, who was among the dead, with three weapons, including what appeared to be a rifle, and a memory memory of great ammunition.
The new laws will give the police and medical professionals greater powers to evaluate the person who applies to obtain a weapons license, by giving them more information to more information about the applicant.
The statement said that they will be enabled to obtain information from the records of local government, public groups and other sources. The police will also have greater powers to cancel the licenses.
Sweden already grants Weapons licenses Just to a large extent for fishermen or members of the sports fire clubs, according to Safin Granath, the crime scientist at Stockholm University, but gangs and drug trafficking managed to store firearms that were smuggled from post -war countries, Eastern Europe and Turkey, he said.
Armed violence was raising, with 281 cases in 2017 when Sweden for the first time to record the shooting during the crime wave, and its peak in 391 cases in 2022, According to police figures.
