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Strazzari, Francesco and Francesca Zampagni. 2018 ‘Thefts and Leakages - Italy.’ Between Organised Crime and Terrorism: Illicit Firearms Actors and Market Dynamics In Italy, p. 266. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 1 January

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(…) According to an interviewee from the arms lobby, the storage of firearms is a major problem for legal owners, due to the increase in thefts of handguns. The EFFECT report highlights how the number of stolen firearms has increased with the increased numbers of thefts from apartments.

(…) According to the DNA, leakages from factories no longer occur: this was a major source of firearms for internal terrorist groups in the 1970s. Government stockpiles are still at risk of being targeted, however.

(…) Huge numbers of firearms are stored at destruction sites.

(…) In April 2017 the Ministry of the Interior reported 'congestion in the armoury that is creating significant technical-logistical problems, and it is critical, in terms of security, to keep the weapons under custody'. An interviewee stated that there is a waiting list for firearms to be destroyed, since not only seized firearms have to be destroyed, but also firearms with manufacturing defects and firearms handed over to the questure by private individuals who do not or cannot comply with licensing requirements.

A significant case of arms leakage was recently discovered at CeRiMant in Padova (2017).

[DNA = National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Bureau / Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo]

ID: Q15419

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