"The availability of weapons is excessive and horrifying, and it cannot be justified by tradition," Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said at a press conference after a meeting of the country's National Security Council.
The attacker in Cetinje, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had a history of possessing illegal weapons, some of which were seized from him in 2022. But police said the gun used in his attack was owned illegally.
Spajic said new searches would be carried out for illegal weapons, giving people in possession of them a two-month deadline to turn them in without facing legal consequences.
"After that, a new law will come into effect, under which possession, especially carrying illegal weapons, will be punished severely," Spajic said, warning that "there will be no mercy".
Montenegro is in mourning after a gunman killed 12 people in a shooting rampage with an illegally owned weapon. It marked the second mass shooting in the small country in less than three years.
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Prime Minister Milojko Spajić said that holders of registered guns will undergo new security and psychological checks while “draconian” punishment is planned for those who hold weapons illegally.
“There will be no mercy for these people,” Spajić said at a news conference after the council session. “They will end up in prison.”
Spajić specified that authorities would give people a period of two months to surrender illegal weapons without facing any consequences. After that, he said, “the law will be explicit and even minimal sentences handed by judges will be drastic.”
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