Firearm ownership is legal in Germany. Long gun or hunting rifles are relatively easy to own. Pistols much more difficult. Concealed carry is essentially unheard of.
Interesting. I wonder if they have any of the gun banners' favorite restrictions, eg assault rifle bans or mag capacity limits?
There is a classification of hunting rifle which I believe, but am not certain, focuses on bolt action. The so-called "assault rifle" that idiots in the US label the AR-15/10 platform is a different class of rifle and not something easily obtainable from what I understand. Thus, magazine capacity and ammunition requirements would follow suit. My information on German law regarding firearms comes from my neighbor, a retired Army guy and avid hunter who recently moved to FL from Germany after living there for 30 years.
Interesting. Thanks. People here probably should be stockpiling AR's and long range rifles, just in case. Policies can change rapidly given how random elections are.
Four Teenage Girls Raped at Swedish Music Festival, Many More Sexually Abused Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP by CHRIS TOMLINSON1 Aug 20172,040 Police in the southern Swedish province of Småland say at least four teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 were raped at the Emmaboda Festival over the weekend. They also claim hundreds of drug offences also took place at the event. The police released a statement on their website totalling the various crimes that occurred at the five-day festival which ended on Saturday. They say that four girls, between the ages of 15 and 17, were raped, 11 women over 18 were sexually abused, 113 people were reported as possessing drugs, and there were a further 251 reports of individuals consuming drugs. Ewa-Gun Westford, spokesman for the South Police Region, said: “There are six suspects for sexual attacks and one for rape,” but did not identify any of the suspects or describe their backgrounds. Ms. Westford added: “Several people who have worked at the festival have been using or have been dealing drugs.” Festival organisers have said that this year’s festival will be the last. “We will evaluate the efforts of the police together with the organiser and the municipality in order to set the conditions for this festival to continue. It’s not just about drugs but also about safety in the area,” Westford said. The possible cancellation of the festival echoes the story of the Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping which was plagued by sex attacks in 2016 in which up to 40 girls were attacked and again this year with fewer victims but still significant numbers. Organisers announced the cancellation of the 2018 festival saying that despite their best efforts they were unable to stop the continued sex attacks. According to reports, the number of sex attacks at Swedish music festivals has increased by as much as 1,000 per cent in 2016 and the trend has shown little sign of change. Aside from the outright cancelling of festivals, few have proposed meaningful solutions to the problem of sex assaults, many of which are said to be committed by young men of a migrant background. Swedish feminist Emma Knyckare has put forward a plan to have a music festival that would avoid sex assaults by not allowing men to participate either as festival goers or performers. Knyckare has already claimed that she has received an outpouring of support for her idea and plans to organise a festival as early as next year. The issue of sex attacks in Sweden is not limited to music festivals as some have complained of systematic sex assaults in Swedish schools, as well. One group in Sweden even claim that most gang rape offences are committed by individuals from migrant backgrounds.
LOL, so no information on the non gang-rape rape but let's blame it on migrants anyway because that fits the narrative. No wonder Breitbart is under criminal investigation, they are fake news propaganda and the lemmings eat it up without any hesitation. Speaking of rape and immigrants, if you run into an illegal alien and a GOP speaker of the house, statistically, which is more likely to rape your prepubescent son?
Sweden: Police Say Situation ‘Completely Unacceptable’ after 550 Per Cent Rise in Grenade Attacks STIG-AKE JONSSON/AFP/Getty Images by VIRGINIA HALE6 Aug 20171,699 The number of hand grenade attacks in Sweden has risen by 550 per cent in just three years, with police describing the situation as “completely unacceptable”. Police data shows that in 2014 the Swedish force investigated eight grenade incidents, none of which involved a detonation. But last year this figure inflated by a massive 550 per cent, as officers saw a total of 52 grenade-related incidents, 27 of which involved detonations. At first, the grenade attacks were mostly directed at cars and homes linked to criminals and their relatives — but from two years ago perpetrators began to target the nation’s “society and state”, an expert at Sweden’s National Police Department told SVT. “One very worrying trend we’ve noticed is that from 2015, we started to see people throwing grenades at municipal buildings, police stations and police officers,” he said, lamenting how, as the number of attacks has increased, so has the number of people who have been injured. “[Criminals] may have mistakenly targeted the wrong address, which has resulted in attacks on innocent families who have children, and there have been grenades hidden at kids’ playgrounds. “There have been a number of cases in which grenades have been found by children, and it is rather surprising to us that there haven’t been more deaths,” the expert added. According to Peter Hejdström, head of police investigation in Halmstad, the explosives — which are typically thrown by hand — are not a problem that is restricted to the big cities, as the widespread availability of grenades in Sweden means even rural areas have been affected. Describing the number of grenade attacks as a “completely unacceptable situation for Sweden”, an expert at NOA who wished to remain anonymous said, adding: “We are very serious about the problem.” He told SVT: “It is impossible to say whether there are more grenade attacks in Sweden than in other European countries,” an expert at NOA who wished to remain anonymous told SVT. “But you could say that the weapons are used here in a way that you do not see them used in any other country in Europe. We differ a lot in that regard.” According to police, the majority of the grenades originate from former Yugoslavian countries, with the M75 and M52 being the models most frequently seen. A eight-year-old British citizen was killed last year while visiting family in the town of Gothenburg, when a hand grenade was tossed into the living room where he was sleeping. In September, Breitbart London reported on how a migrant who fled the Somali Civil War 20 years ago said he was considering moving back to his homeland because Sweden has become a “war zone”. Interviewed at a secret location, Dame said he and his family are on the run from criminal gangs that now rule the Gothenburg suburbs, telling Norwegian public broadcaster NRK: “It’s like a war zone. We do not know who gets shot. Bullets can hit you anywhere.” And former soldiers now working in the police bomb disposal unit of Malmö, where 43 per cent of inhabitants have foreign backgrounds, have said the constant grenade attacks in Sweden’s third largest city remindthem of the years they served in war-torn regions of Iraq.