Ownership of Firearms in the Netherlands

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by mrerick

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In spite of all this control over private citizens, the path to gun possession for criminals and terrorists in the EU is:

- Acquire weakly deactivated firearm
- Acquire ammunition on the black market
- Reactivate firearm
- Commit crime.

Marc

Also, several incidents involved buying black market guns, some stashed for 20-30-60 years - In pictures in iraq I have seen garands, M16's AK's of course and many others. In the beligium attacks, I think some were reactivated and some were just bought on the black market ...