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Iceland is a gun-loving country with no shooting murders since 2007
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Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 15, 2018 07:42pm |
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Category | General |
Author | Alexander Smith and Vladimir Banic |
News Date | Monday, May 28, 2018 09:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | REYKJAVIK, 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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