Germany experienced an increase in weapons-related crime last year, according to statistics released by the Criminal Police Office on Friday. This included around 35,800 violations of the Weapons Act - which covers the production, sale, ownership, storage and use of weapons and munitions - or 6.3% more cases than the previous year, according to the report. A further 563 violations - an increase of 4.3% - fell under a separate act regulating weapons of war, which require specific government autho

“For years, former war and crisis regions have been a source of firearms and the illegal trade in them,” the BKA report said.

“The countries of the Western Balkans in particular are still in the spotlight due to the high availability of firearms there, even more than 30 years after the end of the wars,” it noted.

Most of these weapons are smuggled via land routes. Organized, illegal smuggling of firearms from Ukraine into Germany has not yet been detected, according to the BKA.

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    3•1 month ago

    the american solution “give EVERYONE weapons “