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Planning Underway for Re-Introduction of Firearms into Solomons Police
25 October 2013
ABC Radio Australia (Shortwave)
In Solomon Islands, planning is now underway for the local police force to AGAIN be issued with guns.
Although the reintroduction of firearms would be limited, it's still a major shift in policy 10 years after a gun amnesty was part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands or RAMSI.
The intervention was a regional response to five years of ethnic tensions and there's no doubt some of the bloodshed was caused by the police's own guns which militants had... (GunPolicy.org)