A report from the Guardian notes that police indicated that the Prague mass shooter “legally owned multiple firearms.”
This means he complied with the Czech Republic’s myriad gun controls, including the acquisition of a gun license, which requires passage of a mental and criminal history background check and a demonstration of good cause for owning a gun.
Other gun controls pertinent to legal gun ownership in the Czech Republic include passing a gun safety test, storing the gun according to regulations, and registering the weapon with the “regulating authority,” according to the University of Sydney’s Gun Policy Center.
The Prague mass shooting occurred on Thursday, and Breitbart News cited early reports that noted at least ten people had been killed.
On Friday, the Daily Mail published updated numbers showing the death toll was 14, with another 25 people injured.
People lay flowers outside the Charles University building the day following a mass shooting on December 22, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images)
The Daily Mail pointed to diary entries the mass shooter allegedly made, citing one that said, “I want to do a school shooting and possibly suicide.”
The mass shooter allegedly “murdered his father in the town of Hostoun” before heading to the university in Prague to carry out his heinous attack.
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