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Dressler, Matteo, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann. 2021 ‘Box 4: Collection policies in Croatia and Finland.’ Forgotten Weapons? Non-regularised firearms in the European Union, p. 52. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 28 April

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In 2016, 1.5 million weapons were legally owned by a population of five million, which is a very high share by European standards. While the number of legal owners is decreasing, 75% of firearms are possessed by people older than 60, an age group prone to not using their weapons actively, or even forgetting about them, as a Finnish firearms expert noted in a 2019 interview. This age structure increases the risk that those firearms end up in the wrong hands, most often through theft. This context contributes to the estimated growth in illegal firearms possession by ten per cent every year.

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