Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered a review of Poland's firearms regulations on Friday after a gunman killed six people in Krakow last Saturday.
The 24-year-old attacker, Michał Oksiński, drove onto Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday and opened fire on pedestrians with an AR-15 rifle. Six people died and 16 were wounded, including two police officers who stopped him. Oksiński had held a sports firearms permit since March 2026.
Tusk instructed his ministers to examine laws governing gun ownership. Proposed changes include mandatory periodic psychological evaluations for permit holders and limits on the number of weapons sports permit holders may own. The review will also cover shooting range regulations, including possible restrictions on combat shooting training.
Police found four firearms on Oksiński at the scene. His father also held a gun permit, and authorities discovered 11 weapons in total at the family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. The attacker died in hospital on Monday.
Experts have questioned rules that do not limit how many guns sports permit holders can possess. Shooting ranges are supervised by local governments, making it unclear how inspections would work or what effect they would have.
Jakub Link-Lenczowski, editor-in-chief of the MILMAG.PL portal, said tightening rules under emotional pressure may not prevent similar tragedies. "People fear guns because they do not know them," he said. "In my opinion, there should not be a situation where we punish innocent people for what someone very disturbed did," he added.
