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Dressler, Matteo, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann. 2021 ‘Scope of Non-regularised Firearms in EU Member States. Latvia.’ Forgotten Weapons? Non-regularised firearms in the European Union, p. 34. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 28 April
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[I]n Latvia, legacy firearms play a significant role. The majority of nonregularisation is caused by illicit black digging of World War 2 weapons, with hundreds of cases per year. In addition to black digging, Latvia also has large numbers of historical weapons from past wars and the Soviet occupation, which have not been illegally excavated but have been kept illegally by civilians in their homes.
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