Serbia: Guns, grenades and rocket launchers among 13,500 weapons surrendered after mass shootings
Associated PressBELGRADE, Serbia — Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation. Vucic said that approximately half of the arms collected since last week had been held illegally, while the other half were registered weapons that citizens nonetheless decided to part with. Police officials said gun owners must have a coded safe in which to store their registered weapons and that any guns not kept properly would be confiscated. Police official Otovic Pjanovic insisted that after recent shootings “citizens became aware of the risks of keeping guns at home.” The two mass shooting left 17 people dead and 21 wounded, stunning the nation and triggering calls for changes in the country that has been through decades of turmoil and crises.
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