Norway seeking to ban semi-automatic firearms 10 years after massacre

Norway is moving to ban semi-automatic firearms as of 2021, which will mark a decade since mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik used such weapons to kill 69 people, most of them teenagers.

Norway seeking to ban semi-automatic firearms 10 years after massacre

Norway is moving to ban semi-automatic firearms as of 2021, which will mark a decade since mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik used such weapons to kill 69 people, most of them teenagers.

Peter Frolich of the Norwegian parliament's judicial affairs committee said private persons, including hunters, "should not have the right in Norway to access such weapons".

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