Sweden’s right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country’s deadliest mass shooting at an adult education center where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

The shooter targeted a center that serves migrants seeking to integrate into a country that had already reversed its liberal migration policies.

In response to the deadliest mass shooting at a school in Orebro, Sweden's right-wing government aims to tighten gun laws and ban AR-15 rifles so as to prevent future occurrences. Rickard Andersson, the identified shooter,

Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education centre where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

The shooter who killed 10 people in Sweden’s worst mass shooting earlier this week was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with at least one rifle-like weapon, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

It comes after the Swedish government has backed changes to gun laws, supported by the three largest parties in the Riksdag. Access to certain semi-automatic weapons will be restricted and rules for suitability testing will be made clearer among other changes, Expressen cited a Friday morning government press release as saying.