Finland already has quite "strict" firearms legislation and now is not the right time to discuss tightening it, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said, following a school shooting this week in which a 12-year-old boy shot three classmates. Finnish interior ministry data show there are more than 1.5 million licensed firearms and about 430,000 licence holders in the nation of 5.6 million people, where hunting and target shooting are popular pastimes. Finland's rate of civilian firearms per capita was the highest among European Union countries, a study by Small Arms Survey found in 2018, but Rantanen said the high number of guns does not make Finland "a gun violent country".
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