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Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

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623 points franzb | 1 comments | 14 Nov 15 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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clock_tower ◴[14 Nov 15 01:15 UTC] No.10563816[source]▶
I'm very curious about where the attackers got those firearms. France isn't as heavily disarmed as England, but it isn't exactly the United States for firearms availability; if any of the offenders' weapons can be recovered, I'm sure there will be interesting things to learn from their serial numbers.
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kryptiskt ◴[14 Nov 15 01:28 UTC] No.10563874[source]▶
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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1. gozo ◴[14 Nov 15 05:41 UTC] No.10564630[source]▶
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.