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The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Hamburg

Fury in Germany as Hamburg shooting brings ‘lax’ gun laws into focus

Candles and flowers outside the crime scene after the shooting in Hamburg.
Candles and flowers outside the crime scene after the shooting in Hamburg. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

Gun laws in Germany, where weapon ownership is among the highest in Europe, could be further tightened after last week’s mass shooting in which seven people, including an unborn child, were killed in a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg.

The attack has thrown up the perennial question of whether the various parts of the country’s federal system are working together, and strengthened the hand of those in the governing coalition who are seeking stronger gun controls.

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