Under the ongoing state of emergency French police officers are already permitted to bear their arms while off duty. The measure was brought in as a response to the November terrorist attacks in Paris. But it is due to end once the state of emergency in France is over, which should be the end of July, although the government could yet extend it again. But after a police officer and his wife were stabbed at their home in a town to the west of Paris on Monday, in what... (GunPolicy.org)