Munich mall attack: Calls in Germany for tighter gun laws

Senior German politicians have called for stricter controls on the sale of guns in response to the shooting attack in Munich on Friday, the BBC reports.

Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said everything possible should be done to limit access to deadly weapons.

Ali David Sonboly, 18, shot dead nine people before killing himself. He had a Glock pistol and more than 300 bullets.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who visited the scene of the shootings, said he planned to review gun laws.

Vigils are continuing in Munich to commemorate the victims, seven of whom were teenagers. Three were from Kosovo, three from Turkey and one from Greece.

A further 27 people were injured, 10 of them critically, as a result of the attack at the city's Olympia mall, the biggest shopping centre in the state of Bavaria.

"We must continue to do all we can to limit and strictly control access to deadly weapons," Mr Gabriel, who leads the junior party in the governing coalition, the centre-left Social Democrats, told the Funke Mediengruppe news group.

He said the authorities were investigating how Sonboly, a German-Iranian dual national, had gained access to a weapon despite signs of significant psychological problems.

"Gun control is an important issue," he said.