Arms smuggling

Poles, Swedes rid Europe of Slovak arms

In September 2014, Swedish police in Stockholm detained two drug dealers. Besides 15 kilos of hashish they found gun parts in a plastic bag. It turned out that the parts were from a Glock pistol legally bought in eastern Slovakia.

Further investigation revealed that a 32-year-old man from Sweden visited Slovakia at least once and bought around 230 weapons, Swedish daily Sydsvenskan reported in mid February.

A day earlier Polish police informed the public that it had dismantled a gang that was smuggling hundreds of Slovak weapons through Poland to other parts of Europe.

In Both cases foreigners took advantage of former Slovak legislation allowing foreigners to purchase deactivated weapons in Slovak stores, reactivate them in their homeland and sell again.