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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by kryptiskt on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:28PM (#10563874)
There are open borders in most of EU and it's a piece of cake to buy automatic weapons in eastern Europe, gangs in Sweden import theirs from Slovakia for example.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by gozo on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:41AM (#10564630)
That is only because up until recently you could buy blank fire guns in Slovakia that were easily converted to real guns. Otherwise most of the weapons are from the Balkans as a consequence of the war.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by clock_tower on Friday November 13, 2015 @09:25PM (#10564118)
I hadn't known that it was as bad as that! (Other posters here mention old Soviet arms caches, and the general surplus of weapons spread by the fall of Communism.) It sounds like the UK benefits quite a bit from being on an island... (Are they in Schengen or not?)
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by e12e on Friday November 13, 2015 @09:32PM (#10564152)
The UK and Ireland are outside of Schengen. Hence the improvised refugee/homeless camp on the Calais side of the tunnel.
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