By Kacper Pempel and Karol Badohal
“Shooting in motion, while running, not to mention while driving a car … with one hand steering and firing with another from an AR-style gun … is an entirely different category. His father was a long-time member. Authorities have said his family, including the assailant, had licences for a total of 11 firearms. Gun ownership is relatively low in Poland compared with its European allies, but has been rising since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. Chyb said the assailant, who has not been officially named, had joined the Swit Starachowice club in 2022 and attended it a handful of times, including twice this year and always in the company of his father.
“I wouldn’t know how to shoot like that,” Adam Chyb, 55, a long-time gun shooter and member of the Swit Starachowice club located some 175 km northeast of Krakow, told Reuters. “I’m a sports shooter,” Chyb said. The government said the assailant may have been inspired by far-right ideology, without providing further details, and nationalist opposition politicians disputed such claims. “He never came to the club in any kind of military uniform, did not exhibit any negative behaviour, which would have been noticed,” Chyb said.
STARACHOWICE, Poland, – The young gunman who killed six people in central Krakow on Saturday in Poland’s unprecedented mass shooting appeared to be highly skilled in military-style marksmanship, the spokesperson for his sports shooting club said on Sunday.
