Swiss Killings Raise Pressure for Stricter Gun-Control Laws
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Switzerland’s second shooting spree in the past two months is increasing support for tougher gun controls, including a proposal to link the firearm registries of the Alpine nation’s 26 cantons.
The death toll from yesterday’s shooting at a wood-processing factory in Menznau rose to four when one of seven injured people died in the hospital, Lucerne cantonal police said today in a statement. The 42-year-old Swiss national who opened fire with a Sphinx AT 380 pistol was among the dead. That followed the Jan. 3 killing of three people by a gunman armed with a military rifle in the southern Swiss village of Daillon.