Gun-loving Iceland hasn’t had a shooting murder in more than a decade

1/5 SLIDES © Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Iceland Gun TestsThe last shooting murder in Iceland occurred in 2007. – Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Iceland Gun TestsOlaf Garðar Garðarsson practices his aim. – Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Iceland Gun TestsOlaf Garðar Garðarsson and girlfriend Jóhanna Einarsdóttir are taught how to… – Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Iceland Gun TestsThe gun safety and shooting course is held at a test center outside Reykjavik. REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Like many of his countrymen, Olaf Garðar Garðarsson is eager to get his hands on a rifle. But he can’t just walk into a store and buy one. Instead, he is sitting through a mandatory four-hour lecture on the history and physics of the firearm. This is Iceland — the gun-loving nation that hasn’t experienced a gun-related murder since 2007. How to Clean Laminate Floors "For us, it would be really strange if you could get a license to buy a gun and you had no idea how to handle it," says Garðarsson, 28, a mechanical engineer. "I would find it very odd if [a gun owner] had never even learned which is the pointy end and which is the trigger end."Iceland is a sparsely populated island in the northern Atlantic. Its tiny population of some 330,000 live on a landmass around the size […]

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