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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The New Holliday" data-source="post: 1225598" data-attributes="member: 3122"><p><h3>Have there been shootings in Austria in the past?</h3><p>Yes.</p><p>Mass shootings in Austria date back to at least 1981 when a machine gun and grenade attack killed two people and injured 30 at a synagogue. The attack targeted people leaving a bar mitzvah ceremony. In 1982, two Palestinian men born in Jordan and Iraq were sentenced to life imprisonment for that attack.</p><p></p><p>In 2020, four people were killed and 23 were injured in a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/2/injuries-reported-after-shooting-incident-in-vienna-police" target="_blank">shooting in Vienna</a> hours before the capital was to enter lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. The gunman was shot dead by the police. Authorities described the shooter as a sympathiser of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group.</p><h3>How common is gun ownership in Austria?</h3><p>Gun ownership is common in Austria, with about 30 firearms per 100 people, according to the independent research project Small Arms Survey. This makes Austrians one of the most heavily armed populations in Europe.</p><p>“People here have been saying that this is something that we used to watch on television, in places like the United States of America, Germany, or France,” Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra said, reporting from Graz. “And that they never imagined that something like this could happen right here, in their country.”</p><p>Machine guns and pump-action guns are banned in Austria.</p><p>Official authorisation is required to own revolvers, pistols and semiautomatic weapons. To own rifles and shotguns, Austrians require a firearms licence, a valid hunting licence or a membership at traditional shooting clubs.</p><p>Source: Al Jazeera</p><hr /><h3></h3></blockquote><p></p>

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