Czech Parliament passes gun management invoice following December bloodbath

The Czech Parliament’s higher home, the Senate adopted the decrease home on Wednesday to approve modifications within the gun regulation that tighten necessities for proudly owning a weapon following the worst mass killing within the nation’s historical past.

The laws now have to be signed by President Petr Pavel earlier than turning into regulation, which is anticipated.

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On Dec. 22, a lone shooter killed 14 folks and wounded dozens earlier than killing himself at a Charles College constructing in downtown Prague. The assailant was a 24-year-old scholar who had a proclivity for firearms and a license to personal eight weapons, together with two lengthy weapons.

Authorities mentioned he had no legal document and subsequently didn’t entice the eye of the authorities.

The decrease home gave the inexperienced mild to the brand new regulation on Jan 26.

Beneath the brand new regulation, gun house owners must bear a medical test each 5 years, not each 10 years, as they do now.

Companies can be required to report suspicious purchases of weapons and ammunition to the police, whereas docs would acquire entry to databases to search out out if their sufferers are gun house owners.

Parliamentary debate on the laws had already begun earlier than that capturing. Inside Minister Vit Rakusan mentioned it was exhausting to invest whether or not the brand new guidelines would have prevented it if they’d been in impact earlier than it occurred.

Within the 81-seat Senate, lawmakers authorised the laws in a 66-1 vote.

As soon as authorised by the president, the regulation would make it doable for the authorities to grab a weapon from a personal proprietor on a preventive foundation.

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Within the nation of 10.9 million folks, 314,000 had a gun license on the finish of 2022 and owned virtually one million weapons of assorted sorts.