Concealed carry in EU, map made by me, feel free to correct me if im wrong with something (source: various online sources)

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  3. Iirc here in finland it was legal to carry a gun up until 90s. I wasnt alive back then so dont know if its true. There is still lots of guns here though which is pretty cool.

  4. What counts as civilians? In Sweden only some guards in privately owned guard companies may get a carry permit and they are not even allowed to bring their guns home although they may have a separate private permit for gun/guns which in turn can’t be carried in public.

    Regular civilians will never get a carry permit for a loaded gun in public space. Especially not a concealed carry permit…

  5. For France, it’s basically illegal.

    A civilian can only get a permit for 1 year if there’s a *proven exeptional risk* on their life.

  6. Checks out for Spain I’d say. Having a shotgun/rifle for hunting is *somehow* easy (gotta pass some medical checks and what not but it’s not super hard) but concealed carry outside goverment forces is… I don’t even think I ever heard it after 1998 in a case of a family friend and wasn’t even for a long time. It’s virtually impossible to get one I think (not that I ever checked).

  9. Based Czechia and Poland for having liberal gun laws without a gun death epidemic. Honestly don’t know why that is.

  11. Greece is correct i believe. You need to prove that there is a reason you are in more danger than most. For example you are a private security guard, off duty cop, a politician, someone famous, a public figure in general etc. It’s hard, but possibly.

  12. Damn my country (NL) needs to step it up and loosen the laws on this so people can protect themselves better. Can’t even have pepperspray while young criminals are running around with AK-47’s sometimes…

  13. This is why we can’t have nice things anymore like in the 19th century, such as liberal revolutions.

  15. Interestingly, both Poland & Czech Republic have some of the lowest gun violence in the EU & the world.

  17. The part about Sweden is wrong, at least when it comes to civilians, the law (Vapenlag 1996:67 kap 5 §6) speaks of special authorization for wearing a weapon on a public place, but that is to do with people performing security jobs where they are authorized to wear firearms at a specific location that has a security sensitive nature, it still requires special security guard training as well as a a permit for the location and has nothing to do with how the weapon is carried, it’s definitely not something joe schmoe could just get. All transport needs to be done unassembled, unloaded and stored separately from ammunition(§4)

    I assume someone is misinterpreting §4, 5, and 6.

  19. Is it true about the Baltics? Never heard of concealed carry there.

    I only know that it is now illegal for Russians to own a gun in the Baltics.

  21. I don’t want to sound nationalistic, but Czech crime rates are among lowest in world, despite guns being allowed to be carried here (licenced in case of modern guns)

    We are obviously doing it right, im just afraid that EU will mess itbup by some directive

    I belive both rest of Europe, and USA both should look at us and use our system as good compromise between alllowing people to defend themselfs, but not allowing idiots/criminals/lunatics to buy guns

  24. This may be an ignorant question, but can anyone please explain to me why any civilian would ever need to concealed carry a loaded gun in a public space?

  25. Pretty accurate for Belgium. About the only civilians I know who can carry concealed are the Shmira, the jewish security guys in Antwerp. Everyone else: forget it to carry concealed.

    Open carry: some money transporters, embassy security, and that’s about it.

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