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[abaris]

You can't separate the two, Nestor.  Lots of industrialized countries have crazy bastards.  What they do not have is easy access to guns.  Fuck the NRA.  It makes a difference.

We have easy access to guns. Not as easy as in the USA, but easier than in Germany or any other nighbouring countries. The results are nearly as much gun related deaths as in the USA per capita. Although hereabouts the crazies tend to top themselves rather than topping others.

But we have similar incidenst a few times a year. Such as sonny finding daddys unlocked shooter and greeting auntie with two barrels to the face. Or the drunken husband offing his wife. In fact, the latter happens more often. It's one of the most common forms of homicide. Often ending as murder suicide.

That's a short overview of our gun laws.

       Category A - Forbidden weapons and military weapons
           Military weapons:
               Automatic Weapons
               Semi automatic rifles not approved for civilian use
           Forbidden weapons:
               firearms disguised as other objects,
               fast collapsible, shortenable or demountable weapons,
               shotguns with an overall length under 90 cm and/or a barrel length under 45 cm,
               silencers
               weaponlights for rifles
               brass knuckles
               Totschläger (translation missing) (a flexible baton with a metal ball at the end)
               Stahlruten (translation missing) (a slightly flexible baton)

And that's where the real easy access fun begins, since most murders or suicides are committed with one of those.

Category D - other Weapons: Break action shotguns. All Austrian citizens aged 18 or over can freely buy and own this type of weapon, but ownership has to be registered at a licensed dealer or gunsmith within 6 weeks of purchase (Typically, if bought in a store, the store registers them after doing the required background check). This category was removed and all category D weapons are now category C weapons.

The fact that they have been moved to category C points to the amounts of dead bodies being left in the wake of the more liberal legislation. It also doesn't change the fact that uncounted numbers of these kinds of weapons are still unanccounted for, since they have been bought before the new laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_o...on#Austria