The public mood has dramatically shifted and now favors sensible gun controls: a ban on all semi-automatic weapons and their high-capacity clips, as well as background checks at all gun shows.
The acting national police chief, Sveinung Sponheim, told reporters in Oslo that the gun was an automatic weapon and that undetonated explosives were found on the island after the attack.
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Background checks would be more thorough, gun owners would have to reapply for licences every five years, and fully automatic assault rifles, armour-piercing bullets, lifelike toy guns, and gun-lending would be banned.
He says the group plans to file a lawsuit this week to overturn the gun law, which also banned sales of some formerly legal semi-automatic firearms and requires federal background checks for private gun sales.
In the diary, Mr Liverpool wrote of the need to buy a semi-automatic gun, a silencer, infrared equipment and a "ninja sword", police told the trial.
Now, some of those same investment managers are targeting gun manufacturers and particularly those that make semi-automatic weapons.
We can get behind efforts to rid our country of semi-automatic weapons and prohibit high-capacity ammunition clips for any gun.
Those concerns have been compounded by a failed push on gun control and a similarly unsuccessful effort to avert automatic spending cuts that took effect in March.
They argued that he is a man who cased out military installations, who threatened to light up Fort Dix with gun-fire, and who sought to buy automatic weapons.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semi-automatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
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She and her husband, a big animal veterinarian, have shotguns, a rifle, a handgun and are in the process of acquiring a semi-automatic gun.
For his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip, Mr Baum travelled across the US and met a variety of gun owners, from those blasting automatic weapons in the desert to a school teacher hunting pigs.
In particular, opponents contend the proposed ban on semi-automatic rifles focuses on a weapon used in a tiny percentage of killings and other gun violence.
Obama cited the major provisions of his package of gun proposals, including background checks on all gun sales, a ban on semi-automatic weapons that mimic military weapons, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Emory L. Cozee was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand as he was leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, state police said.
And then the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart took a semi-automatic gun (the Bushmaster M4A3) off its website.
And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said.
New laws on assault weapons the semi-automatic firearms that anti-violence advocates deplore and on magazine-size would be more harmful to the gun industry.
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