Czech decrease home advances stricter gun regulation to Senate

• The Czech Parliament’s decrease home authorised an modification to the nation’s gun regulation, tightening necessities for proudly owning a weapon.
• The choice comes greater than a month after a shooter killed 14 individuals and wounded many in downtown Prague.
• The modification now strikes to the Senate for approval and, if handed, requires the signature of President Petr Pavel to turn into regulation.

The Czech Parliament’s decrease home on Friday authorised an modification to the nation’s gun law that tightens necessities for proudly owning a weapon greater than a month after the worst mass killing within the nation’s historical past.

The laws now goes earlier than the Senate and if authorised there should then be signed by President Petr Pavel earlier than turning into regulation.

On Dec. 22, a lone shooter killed 14 individuals 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, with a license to personal eight weapons, together with two lengthy weapons. Authorities stated he had no criminal record and due to this fact didn’t entice the eye of authorities.

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Parliamentary debate on the laws had already begun earlier than that taking pictures. Inside Minister Vit Rakusan has stated it was exhausting to invest whether or not the brand new guidelines would have prevented it if that they had been in impact earlier than it passed off.

A police officer guards a road in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, on Dec. 21, 2023. The Czech Parliament’s decrease home has authorised an modification to the nation’s gun regulation that tightens necessities for proudly owning a weapon greater than a month after the worst mass killing within the nation’s historical past. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek/File)

Within the 200-seat decrease home, lawmakers authorised the adjustments in a 151-0 vote. If authorised by the Senate, the place the ruling coalition authorities has a majority, and signed by President Petr Pavel, it could then be attainable for authorities to grab a weapon from non-public homeowners for a preventive cause.

It additionally features a requirement for businesses to report back to police suspicious purchases of weapons and ammunition and provides physician entry to databases to seek out out if their sufferers are gun homeowners.

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Gun homeowners must endure a medical examine each 5 years, not each 10 years, as it’s now.

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