After the country saw its second mass shooting in less than 48 hours, the president of Serbia promised "an almost complete disarming" of the nation.
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Aleksandar Vucic unveiled a number of brand-new, stringent regulations governing the use of guns, including more regular background checks on gun owners.
A guy was detained on Friday after opening fire from a moving automobile, leaving eight people dead and 14 injured.
The boy murdered nine people at a school just before that massacre.
Serbia saw its bloodiest shooting in years on Wednesday when a thirteen-year-old student at his Belgrade school shot and killed eight other students as well as a security officer.
The gunman started a fire from a moving automobile in the second incident, which happened early on Friday morning close to the town of Mladenovac, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Belgrade.
He said that no new gun licenses will be given, despite Serbia having one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the whole world.
"We will undertake a review of all 400,000 individuals who own weapons. There would be no more than 30,000 to 40,000 lawfully held guns following these inspections, he claimed.
Additionally, he declared that the fines for unlawful firearm ownership will quadruple. The consequences for carrying knives and other weapons will also be harsher.
Holders of weapons will undergo more routine psychological and mental evaluations, as well as sporadic drug testing.
Additionally, President Vucic promised to improve school security, saying that 1,200 new police officers would be hired in the following six months and assigned to all of the nation's schools.
Despite having one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe, mass shootings are exceedingly uncommon in Serbia.
As a result of conflicts and turbulence in the 1990s, the western Balkans are likewise awash in illicit weaponry. The number of weapons per 100 persons in Serbia is estimated to be 39.1, which places it third in the world behind the US and Montenegro.
