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Sweden to tighten gun laws after mass shooting at school (www.reuters.com)

submitted 6 months ago by OppaGundamStyle@discuss.tchncs.de to c/world@quokk.au

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OREBRO, Sweden, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education centre where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But "Oerebro" would still work...

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe, but it seems like many just drop the umlaut (or whatever it's called in Swedish) rather than trying to mimic the sound: here's a BBC article that did the same as Reuters and here's TripAdvisor also calling it Orebro

[–] CptBread@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Sure but it's harder to read and understand for most people, including me. The only time I remember seeing it is when my last gets mangled on documents when travelling by air.