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Portugal Breaks Records in the Seizure of Weapons and Explosives in 2018

PSP bate recordes na apreensão de armas e explosivos em 2018

Observador (Portugal)

20 February 2019

By Ana Catarina Peixoto

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…The data also reveal that it was not only the weapons seized that hit record figures, but also the number of weapons handed in voluntarily in 2018: more than 20,000. In 2014, there were only 4,884.

According to Pedro Moura, there are three reasons for this increase: the fact that many people have stopped hunting and have to keep a valid licence to hold their weapons, "which is expensive"; "military or ex-military personnel, or even their descendants, who acquired or manifested weapons in the post-April 25 period, especially in 1976, who at that time would have been around 40 years old and now will be over 80, and who do not want to have the weapons" and the fact that it is mandatory to pay €24 per weapon to exchange the old paper booklets for the new ones.

ID: N827

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