A French paratrooper patrols in the center of Lyon, France, November 27, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
PARIS (Reuters) - If you're not a hunter or a target shooter, it's nearly impossible to buy a gun legally in France. But the country's strict gun control laws are not enough to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of Islamist militants.
Gaps in the current laws, light sentences, and the absence of a European agency like the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), with its billion-dollar budget and thousands of agents, are the main problems facing France and its neighbours as they focus on tackling gun trafficking in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, experts said.
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