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NORWAY: Norway could ban semi-automatic weapons — but only from 2021, a decade after fascist Anders Breivik slaughtered 69 people with legally obtained weapons.

Parliament’s judicial affairs committee member Peter Frolich said people should not have the right to possess such weapons. “We must bring the number of lethal weapons down.”

Gun ownership is common in Norway, where many people hunt. Of the country’s five million people 500,000 own a total of 1.3 million firearms.

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