Serbia's Amnesty Collects 13,500 Weapons, Including Rocket Launchers, After Mass Shootings

Serbia's government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following two mass shootings that left 17 people dead, many of them children. Approximately 13,500 items, including anti-tank rocket launchers, were surrendered since the amnesty opened on May 8. Serbia has tens of thousands of weapons brought in from the battlefields of the 1990s wars in the Balkans. After June 8, the state will respond with repressive measures and punishments will be very strict.