Noticias sobre las armas de fuego
Polonia
Polish Right Calls for Easier Access to Guns
21 March 2022
Euroactive
The Polish right has proposed simplifying gun ownership regulations and shortening the procedure for applying for a gun permit as Russia's attack on Ukraine has renewed discussions in Poland about the country's stringent gun ownership laws.
Education minister Przemysław Czarnek has already announced that schools will provide defence training and shooting exercises for students as of September.
Those who back easier access to weapons say that Russia's attack on... (GunPolicy.org)
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Ucrania,Países Bajos,Suecia,Finlandia,Alemania,Polonia,Estados Unidos,Rusia
NATO Countries Pour Weapons Into Ukraine
2 March 2022
New York Times
The Dutch are sending rocket launchers for air defense. The Estonians are sending Javelin antitank missiles. The Poles and the Latvians are sending Stinger surface-to-air missiles. The Czechs are sending machine guns, sniper rifles, pistols and ammunition.
Even formerly neutral countries like Sweden and Finland are sending weapons. And Germany, long allergic to sending weapons into conflict zones, is sending Stingers as well as other shoulder-launched rockets.
In all,... (GunPolicy.org)
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Alemania,Australia,Nueva Zelandia,Japón,Suiza,Francia,Polonia,Iraq
German Ammo Sales Up Tenfold, €4 Billion Arms Sales in 2016
25 October 2016
Mo4ch (US)
Germany's small arms ammunition sales have increased by 10 times in the first 6 months of 2016, while total arms sales have reached €4 billion over the same period and have set a new record, Deutsche-Presse Agentur (DPA) says, citing a government report.
The total value of the small arms ammo export contracts has risen from €27 million ($29.3 million) in the first half of 2015 to €283.8 million ($308 million) in the first six months of 2016, the reports says,... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia
Poland Buys 26,000 Beryl Assault Rifles and Carbines
27 May 2016
IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
The Polish Armed Forces has placed its largest ever order for small arms, ordering over 26,000 Beryl rifles from Fabryka Broni Lucznik Radom.
Worth PLN156 million (USD39.4 million), the contract includes the delivery of 17,621 wz. 96C Beryl assault rifles and 8,400 wz. 96C Mini Beryl carbines between 2016 and 2019.
The order is the largest single firearms contract signed by Poland since 1990 and the biggest since Fabryka Broni Lucznik Radom was founded in 2000.
The... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia
Despite Strong Laws, the Number of Gun Permits in Poland Goes Up
7 August 2014
Polskie Radio (Warsaw), News from Poland
Despite some of the most draconian laws on gun possession in the European Union, over the past decade the number of firearm permits in Poland has gone up by some 30 percent.
Around 500,000 guns are currently registered in Poland, owned by some 340,000 people, latest figures from the central police headquarters reveal.
Currently, the number of hunting firearm permits stands at 150,000, a rise of one third in the past decade. Around 44 percent of all permits are... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia,Ucrania,Israel,Costa de Marfil,Bulgaria,Bielorrusia,China,Angola,Rusia
Guns Easily Available in Côte D'Ivoire Despite Embargo
16 April 2013
IRIN (UN News)
ABIDJAN - Côte d'Ivoire's recent turbulence - including the ouster of president Henri Konan Bédié in 1999, a long-running insurgency and deadly poll unrest in 2011 - has left the country awash in arms, which have contributed to human rights abuses, widespread crime and persistent insecurity.
Two years after coming to power in 2000, Laurent Gbagbo's administration faced an army mutiny, which morphed into a full-scale rebellion. In response, the government underwent a... (GunPolicy.org)
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Rumanía,Burkina Faso,Polonia,Rusia,Letonia,Túnez,Guinea,Senegal,Bulgaria,China,África,Europa,Costa de Marfil
Arms Proliferation and Abuse Shatter Communities in Côte d'Ivoire - AI
20 March 2013
Amnesty International (London)
Reckless and illegal arms supplies from Europe, Africa and China to the warring parties in Côte d'Ivoire over the past decade continue to fuel grave human rights abuses and violent crime in the country, Amnesty International said in a detailed report launched at the United Nations (UN) headquarters.
The 33-page report, Communities shattered by arms proliferation and abuse in Côte d'Ivoire, documents how a handful of states and a network of multinational arms... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia,Noruega
Norway Mass Killer Tried Smuggling, Then Bought His Guns Legally Instead
24 July 2011
Financial Times (UK)
The Nordic countries' hunting traditions mean that there is a high rate of gun ownership in Norway, where locals – and tourists - often go out to the woods to hunt wild reindeer, moose, deer, hare and grouse.
About 439,000 Norwegians are recognised by the Norwegian Register of Hunters, or about one in every 10 citizens. However, most have licences for bolt-action rifles and shotguns, with a smattering of semi-automatic weapons, and ownership of heavier weapons and... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia
Drugs, Guns, Ammunition Seized, 9 Arms Traffickers Arrested in Poland
8 February 2010
Polskie Radio (Warsaw)
Nine people have been arrested by border guards in southern Poland for arms dealing and criminal activities.
The regional prosecutor in Nowy Sacz stated that the group is being charged with dealing in narcotics, arms, explosives and people.
The criminal group has been working in the Silesia region since September 2009 and includes a Slovakian citizen charged with bringing illegal arms into Poland.
Silesian police worked with border guards and customs officials to... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia
Poles Rush to Arms as Crime Booms
23 June 2002
IRNA
WARSAW — For years, membership of a pistol or rifle shooting club was an near essential social attribute among Warsaw's olitical, business and show business elite, the German news agency, DPA's Eva Krafczyk reported from Warsaw. But today the man on the street is racing to acquire firearms or other means of defense in sheer alarm at the soaring crime figures.
The conservative magazine Wprost said the whole of Poland was crime ridden and added that the popular... (GunPolicy.org)
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Polonia
Polish Armed Forces Selling Out Antiquated Arms to Western Collectors
25 April 2001
Warsaw Gazeta Wyborcza
Poland has become a major Central European arms exporter. Collectors in the West are purchasing arms for their museums from the Polish Armed Forces on a huge scale.
"From the point of view of our clients, the fact that the Polish Armed Forces has antiquated equipment is an asset," explains Marian Luczak, director of the Special Trade Department at the Military Property Agency [AMW]. The army hands over used arms to the AMW to sell. The money thus earned is used for... (GunPolicy.org)
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