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Article: STI GP6 Euro-Tech: 9mm contender.
- Article from:
- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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At the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the Central European countries took a deep breath of freedom, embracing both the free market economy and private gun ownership--both long suppressed under the Marxist hegemony. In January of 1993, Czechoslovakia parted along historic and cultural lines creating the Czech and Slovak Republics. Concerned with the criminal use of firearms, the Slovak government granted an amnesty for turn-in of all illegally held guns and then, wonder of wonders, released them to their owners under a liberal licensing procedure. In Europe, "liberal" ...