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Dressler, Matteo, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann. 2021 ‘Changes in Regulations. France.’ Forgotten Weapons? Non-regularised firearms in the European Union, p. 21. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 28 April

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(…) France has had issues with fake and loss declaration after a 2011 amendment to its firearm regulation. The change made it obligatory to register every hunting shotgun (Category D) sold or newly acquired after 2011. Individuals who owned Category D firearms before the amendment and did not wish to sell them are not affected by the changes.

While the exact extent remains opaque, exceptionally high numbers of theft reports for Category D firearms in the years following the law change suggest that at least some individuals may have falsely reported thefts of these types of firearms to sell them illegally. According to 2017 estimates by a government agency, two to three million of these shotgun are still held without a declaration in France by people who have acquired them before the 2011 law change. This represents a large pool of firearms potentially subject to future non-regulation.

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