Anybody who believes the Washington Posts anti gun rhetoric is a fool. There are several gross errors in their article.
Why don’t you just move to France if you think it is so great. You sure spend a lot of time of FR promoting France and it’s restrictive gun laws that somehow don’t seem to apply to you.
At one time, most Europeans were forbidden to own weapons of a caliber identical to military weapons. i.e. 9MM. 7.62MM. 5.56MM, etc. Not sure if still true.
Unfortunately, Paris is a hub of the illegal arms trade industry. AKs (Full auto) go for $1100-$1500.