30 Bore Pistol License In Pakistan Prices

An arms seller picks an assault rifle from a shelf at his shop. ─AFP People smugglers and drug runners were common and everything from stolen cars to fake university degrees could be procured.

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Jan 6, 2009 - Guns have long been part of Pakistan's traditional culture. Firearm licenses issued by the Interior Ministry rose sharply in 2008. More licenses for 30-bore pistols and 53% more for 9mm handguns. They demanded a $100,000 ransom from his family, but gradually reduced the price for his release.

This generations-old trade in the illicit boomed in the 1980s: The mujahideen began buying weapons there for Afghanistan's battle against the Soviets, over the porous border. Later, the town became a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, who enforced their strict rules and parallel system of justice ─ infamously beheading Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak there in 2009.

A gunsmith makes bullets. ─AFP Now Darra is clean of all but the arms, yet the gunsmiths in the bazaar say the region's improved security and authorities' growing intolerance for illegal weaponry are withering an industry that sustained them for decades. “(The) Nawaz Sharif government has established checkpoints everywhere, business is stopped,” said Khitab Gul, 45. Gul is known in Darra for his replicas of Turkish and Bulgarian-made MP5 submachine guns, one of the most popular weapons in the world, widely used by organisations such as America's FBI SWAT teams. Replicas of Turkish and Bulgarian made MP5 submachine guns are seen at a workshop. ─AFP A Darra-made Kalashnikov, Gul says, can sell for as little as $125, cheaper than most smartphones. “The workers here are so skilled that they can copy any weapon they are shown,” he explains.

“In past 10 years I have sold 10,000 guns, and had zero complaints,” he claims. Wild West no more In Gul's sweltering workshop, employees shout over the roar of electrical generators as they expertly cut and drill through metal brought from the shipyards of Karachi, far to the south on the Arabian Sea. Gunsmiths assemble bullets. ─AFP Residents, for their part, viewed the market as legitimate in an area dominated by Pashtun traditions, where gun culture is deeply embedded in male identity. But in recent years the military has cracked down on extremism, particularly in the tribal areas, and security is the best it has been since the Pakistani Taliban were formed in 2007. Every second or third shop in Darra now sells groceries or electronics instead of weapons, the gunsmiths lament.