Austria plans tougher gun laws after mass shooting at school


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  • Saturday, 14 Jun 2025

FILE PHOTO: People attend a memorial service at a main square in Graz, following a deadly shooting at a secondary school, Austria, June 11, 2025.  REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

(Reuters) -The Austrian government plans to tighten national gun laws after enduring its worst school shooting, Chancellor Christian Stocker said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.

Speaking to ORF radio, Stocker said officials aimed to set stricter eligibility rules for possession and purchase of arms after a 21-year-old Austrian man on Tuesday shot dead ten people at a high school in the city of Graz before killing himself.

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