Under the current laws of the Swedish gun, any person over the age of 18 who does not have a criminal record can apply for a permit for shotgun, handgun or semi -automatic rifle.
They should justify the police why they need a gun. Over 20 years of age can apply for a special distribution to own a fully automatic weapon.
According to Swedish Broadcaster SVT data, about 1080,000 Sweden has a weapons license out of a population of 10.5 million.
The Swiss study of 2017 reported that ordinary citizens in Sweden had about 2.3 million guns. It has 23 guns of every 100 people, while 29 in Norway and 120 per 100 in the United States.
To get a hunting license in Sweden, a theory and practical test is needed. About 280,000 Swedish has one.
Sweden has a relatively high -level gun property and gun crime, according to European standards, though most weapons are legally owned and used for hunting.
Gun Crime is mostly associated with groups, who have also used bombs to target each other.
Non -gang -related gun crime is less common, and Tuesday attacks on the country’s first school firing and its worst mass firing. In 2015 and 2022, a total of four people were killed in two separate school warnings.
