Firearm News
Hungary
Hungarian Gun Purchases Increase due to Pandemic Fears
23 March 2020
Reuters
Peter Rostas doesn't want to have any reason to use the gun he was buying, but the young Hungarian father of one was taking no chances with a coronavirus epidemic he fears may bring out the worst in some people.
"It's a precautionary measure," Rostas, 33, said as he lined up outside a small Budapest shop selling non-military grade weapons that require no license. "I'd rather be laughing later than find myself in a conflict with nothing but a broomstick."
Hungarians... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Unclear Statistics as Guns Become Tougher to Obtain in Hungary
25 April 2019
Nepszava
According to experts, the number of official gun owners is greatly exaggerated, but more people are illegally possessing rifles, pistols, and other items.
Firearm abuses are not common in Hungary, and even in recent days, armed mischief involving airsoft rifles is a rarity. However, weapons are a serious risk and their records must be up-to-date, accurate and unmistakable even in peaceful times. In Hungary, however, there is complete confusion in armament statistics.... (GunPolicy.org)
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Slovenia,Malta,El Salvador,Denmark,Croatia,Hungary,Finland,Estonia,France,Spain,Italy,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovakia,Ireland,Latvia,Romania
Methodists Welcome 18 Countries Ratifying Arms Trade Treaty Including UK
3 April 2014
Christian Today
The Methodist Church has praised the government's ratification of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty.
The President of the Methodist Conference, the Reverend Ruth Gee, hailed it as a "legal milestone that should help to protect those who are abused and oppressed".
Countries that ratify the treaty will be required to establish national arms regulators to control the exporting of conventional weapons and weapons components, and to properly regulate arms brokers. Domestic weapon... (GunPolicy.org)
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Italy,United Kingdom,Slovakia,Germany,Romania,France,Spain,Bulgaria,Croatia,Malta,Denmark,El Salvador,Estonia,Finland,Hungary,Ireland,Slovenia,European Union,Latvia
18 Countries Ratify UN Arms Trade Treaty
2 April 2014
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Eighteen countries, including five of the world's leading arms exporters, ratified a landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade on Wednesday, giving a significant boost to the campaign for the treaty's entry into force.
The ambassadors of the 18 countries handed over the documents at a U.N. ceremony on the first anniversary of the General Assembly's adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty, which is aimed at stemming the global... (GunPolicy.org)
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Czech Republic,Hungary,Côte d'Ivoire,Iran,Guinea,Niger,Russia,South Sudan,China,Uganda,Afghanistan,Nigeria,Kenya,Iraq,Congo (DRC)
Trail of Bullet Casings Leads from Africa's Wars Back to Iran
11 January 2013
New York Times
The first clues appeared in Kenya, Uganda and what is now South Sudan. A British arms researcher surveying ammunition used by government forces and civilian militias in 2006 found Kalashnikov rifle cartridges he had not seen before. The ammunition bore no factory code, suggesting that its manufacturer hoped to avoid detection.
Within two years other researchers were finding identical cartridges circulating through the ethnic violence in Darfur. Similar ammunition then... (GunPolicy.org)
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Bosnia & Herzegovina,Croatia,Hungary,Albania,Bulgaria,Kosovo
A 5th of Bosnia & Herzegovina Population Own 750,000 Unregistered Arms
12 January 2012
Southeast European Times
An estimated fifth of Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) population own 750,000 unregistered weapons, according to officials who cite widespread availability and easy access on the black market as a major source of concern.
"After traffic accidents, illegal arms are the most common cause of death in BiH. About 90% of illegal acts are done with the use of illegal weapons," Denis Hadzovic of the Centre for Security Studies in BiH told SETimes.
Most illegal weapons are guns... (GunPolicy.org)
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United Kingdom,Hungary
Machine Guns, Handguns for Brad Pitt Film Seized by Hungarian Police
11 October 2011
Washington Post / AP
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Nearly 100 weapons to be used in Brad Pitt's "World War Z" film were confiscated in Hungary because they had not been properly deactivated, authorities said Tuesday. The weapons included machine guns, rifles and pistols.
The weapons arrived from London to Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Airport on Saturday and were discovered at a nearby duty free zone, Janos Hajdu, head of Hungary's Counterterrorism Center, said. He said he could not confirm they were... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Hungary PM Calls for Greater Gun Control, Crackdown on 'Sport' Shooters
19 February 2010
Hungary Around the Clock (Budapest)
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai yesterday asked Justice and Law Enforcement Minister Imre Forgács to draft a decree on tightening gun control regulations within days.
Bajnai spoke about crime as he assessed 2009 at a police conference. "The tragic or almost tragic shooting incidents of recent months have drawn attention to the need to tighten regulations on access to firearms," he said, adding "we cannot allow sick people who are a threat to the public to have lethal... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Licensed Pistol Club Shooter Arrested for Hungarian University Killing
30 November 2009
Hungary Around the Clock (Budapest)
A court of the city of Pecs (S Hungary) has ordered the pre-trial detention of the young man who shot four people, killing one of them, at Pecs University earlier this week, Judge Istvan Hajdu told the press on Saturday.
The 23-year-old pharmacology student gave himself up shortly after firing shots at his classmates, a lab worker and a cleaning woman in the biophysics research centre of the university just before noon on Thursday. His motivation is still unknown.
The... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Student, Club Shooter Kills 1, Injures 3 in Hungarian University Shooting
27 November 2009
Hungary Around the Clock (Budapest)
A pharmacology student fired shots inside a building of Pecs University in the south of Hungary just before noon on Thursday, killing a classmate and wounding another student, a male lab worker and a cleaning woman, local county police chief told the press from the site.
Police have arrested the attacker, a 23 year-old man, who gave himself up over the phone shortly after firing the shots with a handgun, Jozsef Dakos said.
He is said to have attended a lab class with... (GunPolicy.org)
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Slovakia,United States,Afghanistan,Albania,Bulgaria,Romania,Czech Republic,Hungary
Slovakia Sold Ammunition to Miami Gun Dealer, Pentagon for Afghan War
8 April 2008
BBC Worldwide Monitoring / SME (Bratislava), Transcript
Slovakia has traded in arms with the AEY company, which is being investigated over fraud in the United States. The daily New York Times found out that the company had been selling old Chinese ammunition from Albania to the Afghanis for decades, claiming that it was from Hungary.
It purchased other weapons and munitions for the Afghanis in Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. It is not clear what exactly happened to the munitions and under what... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary,Serbia
Guns, Ammo Seized from 'Ant Trade' Driver at Serbo-Hungarian Border
19 February 2007
Hungarian News Agency / MTI
BUDAPEST — Customs officials seized several pistols and a large amount of cartridges from a Dutch driver at the Tompa border crossing with Serbia, a Customs and Excise Office (VPOP)
spokesman told MTI on Sunday.
The ten Parabellum, Zastava, Smith, Beretta, Colt, Magnum and Wesson brand firearms and 100 pieces of cartridge were found hidden inside the backrest one of the front seats in the car, which sought entry to Hungary early on Sunday, Jeno Sipos said. The driver... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Hungarian Health Ministry Wants to Tighten Gun Permits
29 January 2007
CaboodleNews (Hungary)
The health ministry is planning to amend the law on carrying firearms: Everyone who keeps a gun at home would have to undergo psychological examinations at regular intervals.
The planned amendments have been submitted to the authorities.
According to hirtv.hu, individuals under 40 would have to repeat the examination every five years, those between 40 and 60 every four years, while those over 70 once every year.
Hungarian hunters say the new regulation would be... (GunPolicy.org)
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Ukraine,Hungary
First Guns, Now Missiles and Uranium Smuggled Into Hungary
4 March 2004
Budapest Sun
Ukrainian border guards held a Ukrainian citizen on Monday, February 23, at the Lamberg crossing station after realizing that he was carrying a 400-gram shipment of enriched uranium.
The Hungarian Border Guard Center (HOP) was informed about the incident by the Ukranian authorities. Based on their report, Sándor Orodán, the spokesman of the HOP said that the man drove in his Citröen van to the border station where the vehicle underwent routine inspection.
During... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Six Dead in Hungarian Bank Heist
9 May 2002
Reuters
MOR, Hungary — Six people have been shot dead and two others are in a critical condition following a bank robbery in western Hungary.
A local police spokesman said two armed men aged in their 20s carried out the attack around midday (1000 GMT) on Thursday before escaping on foot.
"It was literally a slaughter, innocent bystanders were just executed," Tibor Csakany, a televison journalist, told Hungarian viewers.
"This is horrible," one local resident in her mid-40s... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Hungarian Pop Star Dies in Gun Accident
3 January 2001
Associated Press
BUDAPEST — Jimmy Zambo, one of Hungary's best-selling pop stars, died yesterday in a freak gun accident.
Zambo, 42, accidentally shot himself in the head at his home in a residential district of Budapest, the state news agency MTI reported. He was a keen hunter and owned several guns.
Police said Zambo was with his wife and three friends, and they had been drinking when he fired his gun, a 9mm Beretta, out of the window.
A police spokeswoman said the reason why he... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Shootings Hit Budapest McDonalds
5 July 2000
Associated Press
BUDAPEST — A man killed one person in a McDonald's restaurant and injured three others in a shooting spree, police said Wednesday.
The gunman entered McDonald's just before midnight while three patrons were arguing with restaurant employees, said Col. Laszlo Garamvoelgyi, a police spokesman.
"He then went into the men's room and emerged with a gun and started shooting," Garamvoelgyi said on state-run television.
The gunman then walked outside, shot a 17-year old on... (GunPolicy.org)
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Hungary
Gun Proposal Irks Groups in Hungary
30 May 2000
Associated Press
BUDAPEST — Hungary's plans to introduce Europe's toughest gun control legislation, strictly curtailing the possession of legally held firearms, has outraged many local special interest groups, including private security firms, the insurance industry and sportsmen.
"Eastern Europe is still probably the easiest place on Earth to obtain cheap handguns illegally," complains Peter Kovacs, 47, a security officer and father of four. "A lot of kids have them, and old ladies... (GunPolicy.org)
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