Just over two and a half years ago, the Police Authority in Stockholm revoked the weapons permit for a member of the Nazi NMR.
This is because the probability that the person would use the weapons in crime was considered high.
Despite this, the person later got the weapons back after a decision in the Supreme Administrative Court.
Since the court's main task is to create precedents, i.e. to be guiding, the case received attention.
But now the government wants to legislate to ban people who belong to violent organizations from owning weapons.
- There are reasons to review the legislation further, with the simple starting point that Nazis and Islamists should not have access to weapons, says Minister of Justice and the Interior Morgan Johansson at a press conference.
"Twitter is a sewer of right-wing extremism"
When Johansson presents further measures against violent extremism and terrorism, he places particular emphasis on the far-right threat, not least from young men acting alone.
In addition to the proposal to ban weapons for people who belong to violent organizations, the government proposes that the security police should be given greater opportunity to collect and save information on social platforms in order to increase the possibilities of keeping an eye on people who are radicalized.
- We all know that some social media are platforms for radicalization.
Twitter is sometimes a cesspool of right-wing extremism, right-wing extremism and radicalization, says Johansson.
Anyone can search what is published on, for example, Twitter, but there are restrictions on what can be saved over a longer period of time, according to the Minister of the Interior and Justice.
He also flags that the allocation to the security police needs to increase and that additional resources for the authority need to be raised from next year.