{"id":668715,"date":"2010-02-18T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f81\/finnish-government-proposes-ban-handguns-39626\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:45:10","slug":"finnish-government-proposes-ban-on-handguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668715","title":{"rendered":"Finnish government proposes ban on handguns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Posted: 02.18.10 01:19 AM<\/p>\n<p>A Finnish government commission on Wednesday proposed a ban on semiautomatic handguns after two school shootings in recent years left 20 people dead. The ban, which needs parliamentary approval, would sharply reduce the number of legal weapons in a country that ranks among the world&#8217;s top five in civilian gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13417\" >http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13417<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 02.18.10 01:19 AM A Finnish government commission on Wednesday proposed a ban on semiautomatic handguns after two school shootings in recent years left 20 people dead. The ban, which needs parliamentary approval, would sharply reduce the number of legal weapons in a country that ranks among the world&#8217;s top five in civilian gun ownership. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NXJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770275,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668715\/revisions\/770275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}