Wow! That's very interesting. I have shot and hunted in Finland and Norway, but not Sweden. My general experience in both Finland and Norway is their guns laws are relatively relaxed compared to some other European countries--but have also hunted in Europe enough to know many countries also have relatively relaxed gun laws, at least compared to what many Americans believe.
When I hunted in Finland it was with a group of both American and European gun writers. One was from France, and among others he owned close to 50 rifles, some of them semi-autos, and several semi-auto handguns....
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Curious to know if your acquaintance from France had some kind of special privilege or if it is common (feasible) for a typical French citizen to own firearms like your acquaintance.
