Germany to curb gun rights

[bossy22]

BERLIN - THE GERMAN government has agreed to curb gun rights, two months after a 17-year-old killed 15 people with a pistol taken from his father's bedroom, according to press reports on Thursday.

The left-right 'grand coalition' has agreed to present a series of measures to parliament in late May tightening arms control laws, several dailies said.

'We have agreed on reasonable changes that will mean more security without over-regulating hobby marksmen and hunters,' the deputy head of the conservative Christian Union parliamentary group, Wolfgang Bosbach, told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung.

The move comes amid a fierce debate touched off by the bloodbath in mid-March in which Tim Kretschmer shot nine pupils and three teachers at his old school in southwestern Germany plus three passers-by before killing himself.

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paintball ban!!!!!

[Israfel4]

1. Why don't the gun haters

move over there????

[Arctic Dave]

4. Why don't the fetishers move to Somalia. Sound stupid both ways doesn't it.

[razorman]

2. I wasn't aware they had any gun rights to curb.

[theoldman]

3. Germany has had restrictions on gun ownership at least since WWII.

No matter how many laws you pass some people will still own guns. Out of millions of people you will have a few nuts. Germany's murder rate is very low compared to the US.

[benEzra]

5. Most of Europe is NOT like the UK.

Ordinary citizens can own handguns and "assault weapons" in France, Germany, Switzerland, etc., as well as some of the Scandinavian countries, although there are varying degrees of red tape involved.