A new, tighter arms law must be in the fall. The responsible interior committee will develop a concept in the summer. The greens are too slow and not far enough.
That is why the party brought an “urgent application” to the National Council on Thursday to allow the possession of private weapons only in defined exceptional matters such as for hunters. Moreover, the psychological reliability test must be improved. Club chairman Leonore Gewessler campaigned to take effective measures to remove illegal weapons from circulation. She remembered that Graz’s shooter had legally used the weapons. This shows that the existing arms law is far too lax.
Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) said that given the crime of Graz with ten dead people, some understood the impatience of some. However, not everything is equally feasible and implementable. “The best legists in the world cannot do that in three weeks”. The new law can be approved by the plenum in September.
Here you can see the explanation of Leonore Gewessler:
Weapon ban on psychological abnormalities
The government does not go as far as the greens application requires. It offers to increase the minimum age for the purchase of particularly dangerous firearms from 21 to 25 years. Moreover, the weapon card for the first owners will be limited to eight years and the results of the psychological examination in the position will also be accessible to the Wapen Authority in the future. The Graz -Schutter was performed by the Psychotest of the Army, but was still able to legally acquire a weapon. With such deviations it should be possible to impose a ban on weapons of a maximum of ten years.
You cannot prevent everything, but the correct conclusions must be drawn, said Spö Security spokesperson Maximilian Köllner. It is also about the protection of women against fatal violence, said Neos MP Henrike Brandstötter. It would be naive to believe that the murderous Spree could have been prevented with a changed arms law, said FPö defender Volker Reifenberger. Then the perpetrator would have received the weapons on the black market, there were no psychological tests.
Source: Krone
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