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The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, on Friday approved new and tougher gun control regulations, which include a controversial measure requiring that any owner of a firearm be subject to regular security “check up” by the BfV, the country’s domestic intelligence agency.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said that the government’s goal is “no weapons in the hands of extremists.” The new regulation also brought an amended European Firearms Directive into German law so as to make it more difficult for criminals and terrorists to get obtain weapons.