Europe is soon going to be in need of clandestine gun supplies, whether metro sexual governments agree or not is irrelevant, it's "[market forces](https://cio-wiki.org/wiki/Market_Forces)" demanding this. Anyway, where are authorities going to be 5 years from now? Look at all the chaos they are inviting, look at the financial markets and national economies now collapsing due to corona, with no end in sight There's a massive potential for an explosive parallel gun market. Central/eastern europe is again well positioned btw, lots of guns from balkan's war still in circulation, you have the geographic connection with russia too "Again" because they are also well positioned to provide an alternative to the suddenly vanishing chinese based manufacturing hub where western europe outsourced its production. Gotta have a plan B. Of course they aren't going to be nowhere near what china was, but "you" have to find an alternative, and central/eastern europe has a below average cost of living/production on top of having overall descent infrastructures and sanitary conditions, plus an already existing, and rather modest, manufacturing base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Europe#Manufacturing >>Central Europe (Berlin, Saxony, the Czech Republic and Little Poland) was largely industrialised by 1850 [14] but Eastern Europe (European Russia) begun industrialisation between 1890–1900 and intensified it during the communist regime (as the USSR), but it suffered from contraction in the 1990s when the inefficient heavy-industry-based manufacturing sector was crippled after the collapse of communism and the introduction of the market economy. In the 21st century the manufacturing sector in Central and Eastern Europe picked up because of the accession of ten formerly Communist European states to the EU and their resulting accession to the European Common Market. This caused firms within the European Union to move jobs from their manufacturing sector to Central European countries such as Poland (see above), which sparked both Central and Eastern European industrial growth and employment. According to Fortune Global 500, 195 of the top 500 companies are headquartered in Europe.[15] The main products in European industry are automobiles, bicycles, rail, machinery, marine, aerospace equipment, food, chemical and pharmaceutical goods, software and electronics.