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Re: Pro-hunting? :) (none / 1)

Private ownership of firearms (and the security of government stockpiles) is actually another, since people who steal firearms (or intend to commit crimes with them) will typically have little compunction about carrying them across EU borders.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Jan 9th, 2012 at 03:57:30 PM EST
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Re: Pro-hunting? :) (none / 0)

Basically zero weapons used in crimes are stolen from legal owners. They are all more or less illegal weapons from the Balkan wars. At least that's the way things are in Sweden, and I bet it's like that in the rest of the EU as well.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Mon Jan 9th, 2012 at 05:00:52 PM EST
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Re: Pro-hunting? :) (none / 0)

It's not something involving theft, but involving lax gun laws, is the fact that Austria served as the main funnel for weapons from both the Balkan Wars and Warshaw Pact armories into the EU.

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by DoDo on Mon Jan 9th, 2012 at 05:15:01 PM EST
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French presidential election - a primer | 110 comments (110 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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