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Gun control was never much of an issue in Spain until recent incidents demonstrated that perhaps a hard look was in order at the laws which allow certain members of society to carry firearms.
The first case involved a pair of off-duty policemen in the northern region of Galicia. In the course of an extortion attempt, the two men held a wealthy industrialist, his wife, daughter, and their housekeeper at gunpoint overnight in the family's home and later shot them when things went wrong.
In the second incident, a prominent Madrid business-man who was permitted to pack a pistol due to his position, shot to death an Angolan man, who had tried...