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Gun Policy News, 25 August 2015

Sweden

25 August 2015

Sveriges Radio AB

[Editor's note: Translated by GunPolicy.org from Swedish into English] [Translated summary: Sweden's 9.7 million inhabitants have barely two million licensed weapons. The National police and SCB's new statistics for the first half of this year have been released. The number of weapons has been divided among the country's seven new police regions and the vast majority of weapons are hunting weapons. There are licences for 900,000 rifles and 640,000 shotguns in the... (GunPolicy.org)

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United States

25 August 2015

HuffPost

It felt like a summer of mass shootings. You probably heard about the killings in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white gunman opened fire inside a historic black church, and the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a man targeted moviegoers inside a darkened theater. Or the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where an armed attacker sprayed a military recruitment center with bullets. Here's one you may not have heard about. On Aug. 8, David Conley allegedly... (GunPolicy.org)

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