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Dressler, Matteo, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann. 2021 ‘Scope of Non-regularised Firearms in EU Member States. Austria.’ Forgotten Weapons? Non-regularised firearms in the European Union, p. 31. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 28 April

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Another case from Austria illustrates the hiding and "getting rid of" large quantities of war materials in water. In the region of the Carinthia lakes in the south of the country, particularly in the Pritscher Bay, large amounts of Second World War weapons, including firearms, have been found. The lake has long been subject to diving for valuable items dumped by Nazi forces during the war. For example, in 2014 and 2015, military divers removed more than eight tons of war material from two lakes.

(…) Austria has a combination of significant non-regularisation sources. A high prevalence of Second World War weapons is believed to be present in the country: either dumped in lakes in specific regions or held by civilians. Moreover, media reports cite a legal firearms dealer that suggests that legacy weapons from the Balkan and post-Soviet states are present in large quantities in the country. How reliable such estimates are remains unclear.

ID: Q15480

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