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Plundered Police, Army Guns Fuel Violent Crime in Papua New Guinea
12 October 2008
ABC News (Australia)
The Papua New Guinea Government is set to make sweeping changes to the country's guns laws to curb violent crime.
For many years, criminals have had easy access to factory-made weapons to commit crimes.
They are the weapons of choice for Papua New Guinea criminals — standard police and army issue high-powered rifles.
Over the years, PNG's armoury has been plundered to such an extent, no one really knows how many guns are in criminal hands.
This is how former... (GunPolicy.org)