Austria plans to tighten gun control rules after school shooting


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 Jun 2025

FILE PHOTO: Flowers and candles are seen in front of the fences as a banner reads ''Graz standing together'', following a deadly shooting at a secondary school, in Graz, Austria, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/ File Photo

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria plans to tighten its gun control rules after a 21-year-old killed 10 people then killed himself in the country's worst school shooting by far, the conservative-led government said on Wednesday.

The gunman, a former pupil at the school in the southern city of Graz, owned the two firearms he used in his rampage, a shotgun and a Glock pistol, legally.

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