Gunman was given a firearms permit despite several psychological red flags
Gun laws in Germany, where weapon ownership is among the highest in Europe, could be further tightened afterin which seven people, including an unborn child, were killed in a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg.
The officers almost certainly saved many lives by arriving within four minutes of the emergency calls and blasting their way into the church near Hamburg airport as Fusz, a freelance business consultant who left the local Jehovah’s Witness chapter 18 months ago, was attempting to systematically murder the 36 people inside with bursts of fire from his semi-automatic Heckler & Koch P30.
A member of Hamburg’s Hanseatic Gun Club, Fusz had held a weapons licence since December last year, and the awarding of this permit is a focus of attention as the people of Hamburg prepare to bury their dead. Nancy Faeser, the federal minister for the interior, said she would seek to review a draft amendment to the Weapons Act that has been under consideration since December after the arrest of 25 people suspected of having planned an armed attack on parliament.
In response to the murder in 2020 of nine people by Tobias Rathjen, 43, psychological health checks were introduced. Rathjen had been diagnosed with paranoid delusions in 2002 but was still able to buy a Glock 17 9mm Luger.
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