On 26 April in the German city of Erfurt expelled teenage student Robert Steinhaeuser shot dead 16 people at the Johann Gutenberg High School. Steinhaeuser had a pump-action shotgun and a pistol, but appears to have used the pistol for his rampage. Steinhaeuser was a member of two gun clubs and legally owned his weapons. In an editorial on 29 April The Age newspaper noted that, "The world is awash with handguns, and too many of them are held by people with dangerous grudges."
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