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by harha 2055 days ago
Too late to edit my previous post, but here is the article:

"Fejzulai is also believed to have travelled to neighbouring Slovakia in July accompanied by another man, where he attempted to buy ammunition suited to the weapons he used in the attack, but the sale reportedly fell through after he failed to produce a firearms licence.

Slovakian authorities are said to have informed their Austrian counterparts at the time. The men travelled in a car registered in the name of the mother of an Islamist known to police."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/police-investi...

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In the US, most states allow you to order ammo online or via mail order without any license, and shipped to your home.
In Europe this is highly irregular, and it did raise a bunch of red flags, as it should.

Unfortunately no actions were taken, there seem to be communication issues within and across the ministries involved.

As long as this isn’t fixed, more data won’t help, quite to the contrary it might tie up resources even further.