Swedish police in a shoot out with armed robbers

[halbautomatisch 60]

Video of two plain clothes Swedish cops shooting it out with robbers armed with (full auto?) AKs. They managed to take one of them out and disable their get away car. The scary part is watching the people on the street just stand around as as shots are being fired.

 

 

http://www.youtube.c...e&v=JS8b-jI2274

 

 

 

FYI - AKs in any form and all handguns cannot be owned by civilians in Sweden - another example of how well gun control works.

[david8613 69]

wow and all those people just standing around with aks and pistols going off! no one ducked for cover??? WTH!

[Blacksmythe 71]

And not one clip was shot on a nokia lumia 920.....But wow those people had nerves of steel....Or lack of situational awareness.

[TheWombat 67]

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FYI - AKs in any form and all handguns cannot be owned by civilians in Sweden - another example of how well gun control works.

 

I lived in Sweden for a while and still have many friends there. As much as I support the US 2A, one crime with AKs doesn't prove that gun control doesn't work. When I lived in Sweden a few years back it was incredibly rare to have a shooting.

 

Different country, different culture, different mindset. Interestingly the majority of Swedes used to have to do military service, not sure if that is the case anymore, so they have familiarity with firearms. However as with most countries these days crime gangs are being more of an issue.

 

TheWombat

[tony357 386]

I lived in Sweden for a while and still have many friends there. As much as I support the US 2A, one crime with AKs doesn't prove that gun control doesn't work. When I lived in Sweden a few years back it was incredibly rare to have a shooting.

 

Different country, different culture, different mindset. Interestingly the majority of Swedes used to have to do military service, not sure if that is the case anymore, so they have familiarity with firearms. However as with most countries these days crime gangs are being more of an issue.

 

TheWombat

 

Their may have been a gang association with this crime, reason for thought is all 3 were wearing same shirt..

[petros600 12]

At 3:10 of the video, you see a type 3 milled receiver ak

[halbautomatisch 60]

I lived in Sweden for a while and still have many friends there. As much as I support the US 2A, one crime with AKs doesn't prove that gun control doesn't work. When I lived in Sweden a few years back it was incredibly rare to have a shooting.

 

Different country, different culture, different mindset. Interestingly the majority of Swedes used to have to do military service, not sure if that is the case anymore, so they have familiarity with firearms. However as with most countries these days crime gangs are being more of an issue.

 

TheWombat

OK, I should have phrased that more along the lines of how gun bans don't keep criminals from getting them, or committing atrocities with them.......like in Norway, where shootings are also incredibly rare.

 

Different country, culture and mindset............very true. That explains a lot about why some countries have bigger crime problems than others, it's not the accessibility to guns that causes crime, rather it's social factors. Finland and Switzerland have fairly high rates of gun ownership, and much lower shootings per capita than the US.

 

The amazing thing about this shootout in Sweden is that the police showed up there before the robbers got away. Sweden is grossly under policed, for a country of about 9 million, they only have about 20,000 police officers. I suspect these cops may have been tailing them to begin with (which would also explain why they were in plain clothes).

[Spartiati 63]

In the comments section there are entries which claim the robbers were using replica AK's....