Theme: firearms

• Pulling the trigger: gun violence in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet (ed.), Szymon Buczyński, Piotr Chlebowicz, Sanja Ćopić, Quitterie de Labbey, Mirjana Dokmanović, Matteo Dressler (with the support of Clara Vandewege and Sofie Waebens), Declan Hillier, Paul James, Katharina Krüsselmann, Matt Lewis, Marieke Liem, Jarosław Moszczyński, Tomasz Safjański, Dennis Vanden Auweele.

  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

  
• Project TARGET: Targeting gun violence & trafficking in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet & Dennis Vanden Auweele

  Publication date: 13/12/2021

  Project TARGET is a comprehensive research project that explores the links between the different types of firearms trafficking and gun violence in all EU Member States and the Western Balkans. How does illicit firearms trafficking impact gun violence in Europe? ... read more

  
• 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

• Gun Control in Belgium: A Review of the Effects of the 2006 Weapons Law Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Maarten Van Alstein

  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