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Bemused couples sitting in street cafés got squirted with water pistols and a luxury clothes store was pasted with stickers declaring the tourists who'd shut themselves inside unwelcome.

Current information suggests the shooter legally owned the two guns used in the attack - a pistol and a shotgun - and had a firearms licence, police said.

Machine guns and pump action guns are banned, while revolvers, pistols and semi-automatic weapons are allowed only with official authorisation.

The 64-year-old, who is now awaiting sentence, converted at least 33 replica pistols, and made enough bullets for a further 80 kits that were packaged with silencers and latex gloves.

In a demonstration against the bill outside the National Assembly on Saturday, one 44-year-old woman suffering from Parkinson's disease said it would be like a "loaded pistol left on my bedside table".