It is becoming easier to buy automatic weapons. That’s because of the disappearance of border controls and the elimination of the structures of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
This writes the Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van Laan following the very violent incidents in Amsterdam which was shot with automatic firearms. For example, last week, a woman of 60 shot dead in Amsterdam’s Geuzenveld.
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It is not clear how many shootings in Amsterdam recently been used automatic weapons. The police there, according to Van der Laan no separate registration with.
According to Van der Laan is “a very worrying development that the weapons are used in public spaces, in which citizens at serious risk.” If an automatic weapon is confiscated, via Interpol tried to trace the origin, writes Van der Laan.
He also composed the police the image that it has become easier with automatic weapons to come. Since 2010, according to Van der Laan 60 of these weapons were seized. It is about machine guns, such as Uzis, and assault rifles, such as the Kalashnikov.
RTL News / Reuters
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