Theme: conventional weapons
Project SAFTE: Take a look at the project here
Project DIVERT: Take a look at the project here
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Pulling the trigger: gun violence in Europe Report
Publication date: 27/10/2022
This report contains the 7 country studies – Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Sweden – that were undertaken as part of the second phase of project TARGET. While the reader will be able to observe interesting similarities ... read more
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Armed to Kill: A comprehensive analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe between 2009 and 2018 Report
Publication date: 03/10/2019
This report analyses the firearms used in public mass shootings (with at least four deaths) in Europe between 2009-2018. In most of these shootings the perpetrator acted alone and had no terrorist motives. Public mass shootings by persons with terrorist ... read more
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Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE Report
Publication date: 18/04/2018
Project SAFTE showed that there is not one unified firearms market in Europe. Rather several disjointed and sometimes interrelated markets with different characteristics, configurations and supply-and-demand mechanisms exist alongside each other within Europe. This report offers a systematic and comparative ... read more
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Firearms acquisition and the terrorism-criminality nexus’, in T. Renard (red.), Counterterrorism in Belgium: Key challenges and policy options External publication
In his contribution Duquet explores the deadly connection between terrorism and illicit firearms acquisition, starting from the fact that the Paris and Brussels attackers bought their assault rifles in Belgium via pre-existing criminal ties. After describing the illicit firearms market ... read more
