Posted on 02/27/2018 4:42:42 PM PST by Simon Green
Norway plans to ban semi-automatic firearms as of 2021, nearly a decade after right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's mass shooting left 69 people dead, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The minority right-wing government had presented a proposal on the ban last year.
"Today (Tuesday), it has become clear that there is a parliamentary majority in favor of the government's proposal. Semi-automatic weapons will therefore be banned in Norway," Peter Frolich, a Conservative member of parliament's standing committee on judicial affairs, told AFP.
The ban, which would enter into force in 2021, comes amid renewed debate on semi-automatic weapons in the United States, following a school shooting in Florida that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers on February 14.
The massacre in Norway took place on July 22, 2011, when disguised as a police officer and armed with a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle and a Glock pistol, Breivik killed 69 people, most of them teenagers who were attending a Labour Party youth camp.
Just a few hours before the camp attack, he had killed eight people in a bombing outside a government building in Oslo.
In a 2012 report, a commission tasked with drawing conclusions from the attacks had called for a ban on semi-automatic weapons, one of its 31 recommendations.
"This decision is a very good thing, even if it comes belatedly," the head of a victims' support group, Lisbeth Kristine Royneland, said.
The bill allows for several exemptions, in particular for shooting sports.
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Hillary mania in Norway. And remember that they don’t want to immigrate to the States.
Turn in your testicles while you’re at it, cucks.
Can’t believe it’s already been 10 years.
The Vikings are truly dead, along with the Australians.
Frolich is a German name, BTW.
tell them to check the fjords
Also, the Confederate statue stuff back in August 2017 had Australia looking into whether it should keep statues like one of Captain James Cook in a public park.
I kind of get the resentment some have towards the U.S., when we export this nonsense. Our 'Call me Caitlyn' pop culture is pretty terrible too.
All of the weapons he used were smuggled into the country, so this law is meaningless.
It’s sad to watch a great people fall like this.
Tough gun control laws didn’t prevent the massacre.
But pass another law and bad guys hopefully won’t shoot up a Norwegian gun-free zone...
Evidence of a global effort to effect the UN’s vision upon the world.
And this is why democracies fail horribly.
Right on!
Foreign invaders are licking their chops.
The Workers' Youth League (Bokmål: Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking, Nynorsk: Arbeidaranes Ungdomsfylking, or AUF) is Norway's largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labour Party.
History
In 1903, the Norwegian Social-Democratic Youth League was formed, which the organization and historians[citation needed] consider to be the foundation of the organization.
As an organizational entity, AUF took its current form in April 1927 following the merger of Left Communist Youth League and Socialist Youth League of Norway corresponding with the merger of its parent parties[2] after the conclusion of disputes over the "Twenty-one Conditions". Its ideology is social democracy and democratic socialism.[citation needed]
On the day of the attacks, Breivik electronically distributed a compendium of texts entitled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, describing his militant ideology.[13][14][15][16] In them, he lays out a worldview encompassing opposition to Islam and blaming feminism for creating a European "cultural suicide".[17][18] The texts call Islam and "Cultural Marxism" the enemy and advocate the deportation of all Muslims from Europe based on the model of the Beneš decrees, while also claiming that feminism exists to destroy European culture.[19][20] Breivik wrote that his main motive for the atrocities was to market his manifesto.[21]
Someone asked a European what happened to all the Vikings? They replied all the Vikings went to Iceland.
These people truly are stupid. After the populace is essentially unarmed, the muzzies will walk right in and take over.
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