The Swedish government will put forward a bill that would require all weapon magazines to have a licence, or be connected to a licensed weapon, Interior Minister Mikael Damberg has said.
Moderate MP Hanif Bali has been criticized by the prime minister, fellow MPs and the Newspapers Publishers Association (Tidningsutgivarna - TU) for posting a photo to Twitter in which he poses with an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle used in a number of mass shootings in the US.
Police in Sweden have taken in nearly 9,000 weapons during the three-month weapons amnesty which comes to an end on Monday, Swedish Radio has reported.
The Swedish government is considering further increasing the punishments for weapons crimes in the country in an effort to decrease the number of illegal weapons in circulation.
A man has been arrested in Stockholm after a police sniffer dog uncovered a large amount of drugs and weapons including explosives stored in a parked car.
In the latest edition of our <a href="https://www.thelocal.se/tag/sweden+in+focus">Sweden in Focus</a> series, The Local looks at Sweden's struggle to crack down on hand grenades and illegal weapons.
Swedish military exports rose by 2 percent last year, inflated by the sale of fighter jets to Brazil. But critics say the most worrying trend is that Sweden continues to sell to non-democratic states.
Swedish defence giant Saab will team up with India's Adani Group to bid for a lucrative multi-billion dollar deal to make fighter jets in the country, an industry source told AFP.
A 46-year-old Swedish businessman in the security industry has been charged with illegally selling military equipment to foreign countries and companies across the world.
Police in Malmö have called for strengthened border control on the Öresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark in a bid to crack down on a recent wave of gun crime in the city.
Countries that fall short of following the principles of democracy should not be allowed to buy Swedish weapons, a parliamentary investigation in Sweden has concluded.
UPDATED: Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has renewed Swedish calls for a global ban on nuclear weapons as the United Nations begins a major review of the industry.
More than 100 hand grenades and around a dozen automatic weapons on their way to Stockholm were confiscated on Friday when Bosnian police swooped down in on a weapons ring that had been on law enforcement’s radar since last year.
Swedish police have released fresh statistics about the country's latest weapons amnesty - with officers surprised by the sheer volume of firearms and ammunition that were turned in.
The lessons of nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 1940s must never be forgotten and there should be a united front to ensure all nuclear weapons are decommissioned, says Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallström.
The military coup in Thailand has not had an impact on the planned delivery of Swedish Gripen fighter jets with supplies and support, with the Thais now in possession of 12 of the aircraft.
Police have called upon the military for help and are scratching their heads as to how and why a man in southern Sweden managed to amass an arsenal of hundreds of weapons, 557 of which he had a licence to own.
