18 Guns Found in Ditch in The Hague

The Hague isn’t just a place you hear about in the movies where they send war criminals. It’s a city in the Netherlands. They’re big on having “the” in their location names for some reason.

Regardless, because it’s in Europe, you know good and well that it’s an anti-gun nation. Guns are tightly controlled, and while there are exceptions, as in most places, they’re not easy to get.

In fact, they’ve got all the gun control laws, and then some, that American gun grabbers say they want.

And how does that work? Well, you tell me.

All 18 firearms pulled from a ditch near Erasmusweg in The Hague by a magnet fisherman on Sunday have been confirmed to be real and usable, the police said Monday. Some were authentic pistols, while others had been modified but were still operational as firearms, according to a police spokesperson, Omroep West reported.

The weapons were discovered inside a single bag retrieved from the water by a magnet fisherman. After alerting authorities, a police diving team was dispatched to search the ditch but recovered no additional weapons.

Police also confirmed that they found 24 guns nearby earlier this month.

Now, let’s put a few things in perspective.

Is 18 a lot of guns? In an American gun safe, not really. In a ditch in The Hague? Yeah, it kind of is.

Needless to say, 24 is a lot as well.

Locals are concerned that criminals are dumping guns in the ditch, which is fair because, well, there are a lot of guns just sitting in ditches in a city within a gun-controlled nation. Since these were underwater, it seems likely that this was some kind of dumping operation.

However, the fact that these were all in a single bag and a similar find was made earlier this month, it’s also possible that it’s part of some gun trafficking scheme and were just found by dumb luck.

If it was, I suspect that they won’t find anything else.

Now, let’s talk about the guns themselves. The article says, “Some were authentic pistols, while others had been modified but were still operational as firearms.” I’m not entirely sure what they mean by this, but based on what I’ve seen come out of Europe, what they mean is that some were traditionally manufactured pistols while others were likely converted from non-firing replicas.

Privately made firearms is also a possibility, but not a strong one, as I’m sure they’d have been singled out.

So what we have are 42 firearms recovered from a single ditch in The Hague this month, despite the plethora of gun control laws on the books. Maybe it’s just me, but that suggests those gun control laws aren’t really doing all that much.

Whether it’s dumping or trafficking, that’s a significant number of guns found in such a relatively small area in a relatively small period of time in a European city.

Hell, that would be a lot to find in such close proximity in Chicago or Baltimore.

So I guess The Hague in The Netherlands isn’t The Gun-Control Success some might like to believe.

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