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by smallbrain 2423 days ago
>used by criminals are smuggled into the country mostly from the Baltic states.

If you make claims like this, you have to provide a source.

Baltic states don't have automatic weapons or nades just lying around, nor does it have gun violence or gang violence problems.

All the weird gang-violence, nades being thrown around that happens in Sweden, acid-attacks in UK and so on.

This shit doesn't happen in Baltics.
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sooenkill 2423 days ago
There's been wide news coverage and police reports on this. Most weapons found are weapons used in the wars around jugoslavia. I cant provide you with a quick link. I live in Malmö and its a really nice city with some rougher areas, but nothing too crazy. Gangs are kind of split into bikers (Hells angels, Bandidos and the like and nonbikers. The nonbikers are mainly eastern european (m-falangen, k-falangen) but recently i think we have some somalian gang (black axe?). Problem is we have tons of immigration kids who cant find basic jobs and get tempted into a life of crime by quick money and fast cars. Main income is drugs (since everything is highly illegal, including weed) but they also do extortion etc of business owners. I think a lot of the bombs are cases of extortion. The bombs luckily arent that sofisticated (no carbombs etc) and most people getting caught/being blown up are males age 16-19 so very young.
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smallbrain 2423 days ago
> Most weapons found are weapons used in the wars around jugoslavia.

I was talking specifically about the claim that the weapons(automatic weapons, granades, etc) are sourced from Baltics. Which is obviously BS unless you can provide a reliable source for the claim.

All the things you are talking about are a complete non-issue in Baltics.

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dogma1138 2423 days ago
Balkans and Baltic...

>A bulk of the unlicensed firearms in circulation in Sweden come from the Balkans and now the government wants to clamp down on smuggling from the region.

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...

The Baltics specifically are the smuggling route the biggest Baltic source however it's Belarus.

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