Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) appealed to gun owners to check whether they keep weapons separate from ammunition, as well as to make the keys or codes of cash registers, safes and cabinets in which they keep weapons inaccessible to other persons, especially out of the reach of children.
In the following period, members of the MUP will take all measures in order to determine, by direct control at the address of the registered residence of the owner of the weapon, whether the owner of the weapon keeps the weapon in accordance with the current regulations on weapons.
"Weapon owners whose weapons are found to be carelessly stored, so that they can come into the possession of unauthorized persons and endanger people's safety, will have their weapons confiscated and a request will be submitted to initiate misdemeanor proceedings in accordance with the Law on Arms and Ammunition," he announced. MUP.
In yesterday's shootings at Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school eight children and a security guard were killed. They were shot at by a seventh-grader with a weapon belonging to his father.
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