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  Iceland is a gun-loving country with no shooting murders since 2007
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Last EditedIndyGeorgia  Jul 15, 2018 07:42pm
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AuthorAlexander Smith and Vladimir Banic
News DateMonday, May 28, 2018 09:40:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionREYKJAVIK, Iceland — Like many of his countrymen, Olaf Garðar Garðarsson is eager to get his hands on a rifle.

But he can't just walk into a store and buy one. Instead, he is sitting through a mandatory four-hour lecture on the history and physics of the firearm.

This is Iceland — the gun-loving nation that hasn't experienced a gun-related murder since 2007.

"For us, it would be really strange if you could get a license to buy a gun and you had no idea how to handle it," says Garðarsson, 28, a mechanical engineer. "I would find it very odd if [a gun owner] had never even learned which is the pointy end and which is the trigger end."
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