Theme: firearms
Project SAFTE: Take a look at the project here
Project DIVERT: Take a look at the project here
Project TARGET: Take a look at the project here
Project INSIGHT: 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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Project DIVERT: Firearms fraud in the European Union Report
Publication date: 11/04/2022
Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download here focuses on fraud. It is part of a three-part series exploring previously under-researched diversion methods in the EU. Two additional studies deal with ... read more
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Public mass shootings in Europe: how did the weapons fall into the wrong hands? Factsheet
Publication date: 03/10/2019
This factsheet summarizes the most important findings of the report “Armed to Kill” on the firearms acquisition of the perpetrators of public mass shootings in Europe between 2009-2018 read more
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Guns for sale: the Belgian illicit gun market in a European perspective Report
Publication date: 21/03/2016
The attention paid to the problem of the possession of illicit firearms and the illegal trafficking of firearms has increased significantly over the past few years, at both a Belgian and a European level. In Belgium, this increase in political ... read more
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Gun Control in Belgium: A Review of the Effects of the 2006 Weapons Law Report
Publication date: 03/03/2015
A review of the effects of the Belgian weapons law of 2006 and a concise account of how the law came about, and what major innovations it introduced in the Belgian gun control regime. read more
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Gun Ownership in Belgium Report
Publication date: 19/09/2012
This report sheds some light on the size and nature of gun ownership in Belgium through (1) the official statistics of the Belgian Central Weapons Register and the databases of provincial weapons administrations, and (2) the results of telephone surveysthe ... read more