Talk:Firearms regulation in Norway

Mental illness
The applicant must have a clean police record and no history of mental illness.

Whoever posted this, would you kindly source this or clarify? There are laws to prevent the mentally ill from owning and obtaining fireams, but this is the first that I have ever heard of 'no history' specificly stated as a requirement. Then again, I do not know about these things in great detail. --Krekling (talk) 14:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know one can have a mental history (I asked for a friend of mine who has had some record, if I don't remember wrong the lass down at the police office said that it wouldn't be an issue, as long as it hadn't been connected to any violence, and I'm pretty damn sure that he got the permission to get a shotgun). Anyways if it where an issue, Im still pretty sure that the police ain't got no access to the health record, of any of the applicants. So, I'll grant meself the liberty to change that, if anyone think that I'm wrong doing this, then shout out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Honatheidiot (talk • contribs) 21:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Lead
I removed the following sentence from the lead:


 * This is because of well established hunting and wildlife traditions of Norway which make guns an everyday object.

As this sentence is putting forth a specific cause for Norway's low gun crime rate, not just stating the fact that Norway has long hunting and wildlife traditions, it should definitely be sourced. If someone finds a source, I suggest rewording the sentence to something along the lines of: "[the source] explains the low gun crime rate with....". -Ole Eivind (talk) 21:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Rm unsourced bit
"While having a large number of civilian owned guns, Norway has a low gun crime rate.."--91.148.159.4 (talk) 12:42, 24 July 2011 (UTC)