GUNS AT HOME
Guns at home # 2
2007
90 x 90 cm
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Guns at home # 4
2007
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 1
2007
60 x 60 cm
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2007
Guns at home # 6
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 10
2007
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 9
2007
90 x 90 cm
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Guns at home # 3
2007
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 5
2007
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 7
2007
60 x 60 cm
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Guns at home # 8
2007
60 x 60 cm
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GUNS AT HOME
There are guns in many Albanian homes, both guns ment for hunting purposes and illegal guns. Illegal guns are quite often Kalashnikovs. Reason for people having these illegal guns is in the revolt in 1997, when the people went to barricades and finally rushed into the weapon storages managed by the government robbing them empty. When situation calmed down the government asked the people to return the stolen weaponry. Some of the guns got returned, many of them stayed as a hidden property of the people and fair number of them were smuggled outside Albania. People having these weapons at home is unspoken common knowledge.
Originating to these happenings and being based in the earlier history it may be stated that Albanians have close relationship with guns. There are a lot of them out in the public as well.
Normal way of storing the weapons is having the actual gun in one place, the bullets in an another place and the magazin in the third place. This proves the guns are not ment for sudden use but, rather, for more serious cases.