National security

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...European police disrupted an international weapons-smuggling ring operating across Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France. Simultaneous raids in the four countries led to several arrests. Austria alone claimed to have seized 150 firearms and hundreds of kilograms of ammunition. Advances in ballistics technology have made it possible to examine firearms used in separate shootings—‘where the gun came from, where else it might have been used’—to assist in the identification of gun-smuggling routes.