SOFIA, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Changes in the law that regulates issuing permits for possession of firearms are urgently required, local press reported Saturday citing Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov.

    According to the minister, stricter rules are required, because90 percent of the appeals against the Interior Ministry over rejections for arms permits are accepted by the court while permits are then issued.

    Petkov declared that in the next few days the ministry would publicly announce the law changes it is going to propose to the parliament.

    Petkov commented on the gun laws in relation to the recent tragic shooting case in Bulgaria's western town of Tran. On Wednesday, a 67 year-old man with a criminal record shot dead a 15year-old orphan and injured two more children from a local orphanage before shooting himself with a legally owned rifle.