France has a gun ban. So why, when the “youths” rioted there recently, did they have M4s, AK47s, and belt fed machine guns?
See: the French mafia from Marseilles. Heroin and guns trade with Afghanistan etc. What the French national police have to keep tabs on as well as Interpol.
Memories of the true story of the French Connection (and the french movie star whose car was shipped to NYC with rocker panels filled with H. It happened. Military hardware is a side trade commodity.