Who shot Kendji Girac? The investigation opened by the Mont-de-Marsan public prosecutor’s office (Landes) aims to understand how the 27-year-old singer could have been injured in the chest on Monday morning. The investigators, who have not yet heard him, are not ruling out any leads. According to a source close to the case, the artist told emergency services that he had bought a weapon in a flea market and had accidentally injured himself while handling it.
A weapon of the same model was found without a magazine in a bush near the Biscarrosse Travelers reception area where he was that night. But is it only possible to buy a firearm at a garage sale or at a flea market, as Kendji Girac indicated?
Supervised sales
You should know that, since June 2018, sales of weapons between individuals have been strictly regulated by law. Transactions must be carried out in the presence of an approved gunsmith or be witnessed by an authorized broker. These professionals have the obligation to verify the identity of the purchaser, to ensure possession of the documents necessary for the acquisition of a weapon, to identify the technical characteristics of the weapon to determine its category .
They also consult the National File of prohibitions on the acquisition and possession of weapons. The sale is recorded in a special register by these experts who will then transmit the declarations of transfer and acquisition “to the prefect of the buyer’s domicile and to that of the purchaser’s domicile”, explains the Ministry of the Interior in a note.
Possible sanctions
The sale of weapons, ammunition or knives is therefore prohibited during this type of event. According to the internal security code, only neutralized weapons can be the subject of a transaction, and this with the agreement of the organizer. Individuals can, however, continue to sell old pistols or rifles on arms exchanges, provided that an approved gunsmith is present on the premises.
Regularly, offenders are arrested by the police. In August 2017, a resident of Orne was arrested by the gendarmes while he was selling hunting and war weapons and ammunition at a flea market in Rânes. This 68-year-old man, who presented himself as a collector, was sentenced to a three-month suspended prison sentence, accompanied by a ban on carrying or possessing a weapon for one year, and the withdrawal of his hunting license. for the same duration, indicates the Orne Journal.