Theme: firearms

• Project DIVERT: Firearms fraud in the European Union Report

  Authors: Quitterie de Labbey, Nils Duquet & Diederik Cops

  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

  
• 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

  
• Project DIVERT: Firearms theft in the European Union Report

  Authors: Quitterie de Labbey, Nils Duquet & Lore Smets

  Publication date: 26/05/2021

  Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download below focuses on theft.  It is part of a three-part series exploring previously under-researched diversion methods in the EU. Two additional studies deal with firearms diversion through ... read more

  
• Project DIVERT: Non-regularised firearms in the European Union Report

  Authors: Matteo Dressler, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann

  Publication date: 28/04/2021

  Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download below focuses on non-regularisation, more specifically on the diversion of firearms, components and ammunition through conflict legacies, illegal inheritance and regulatory changes in the ... 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

• Reviewing the EU Common Position on arms exports: whither EU arms transfer controls? Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops and Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 03/12/2019

  For almost 30 years the European Union (EU) has attempted to achieve greater convergence of its member states’ arms export policies. Since the adoption of the EU’s Common Position on arms exports in 2008, two review processes have taken place. ... read more