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Authorities have arrested two people after finding a large weapons cache in their home in northern Greece, police said Tuesday.

The two - a 54-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman - face felony counts of weapons and explosives possession. 

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Two gun-making workshops have been dismantled in the western port city of Patra after police launched an operation following a tipoff.

Officers raided the house and basement of two men aged 58 and 69 respectively, who had come into the police's sights following information from a confidential source.

A man who opened fire outside an Athens appeals court on Friday has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

He was facing several misdemeanor charges, including unlawful shooting, illegal handgun possession and resisting arrest.

The man fired three shots into the air with a handgun while speaking to the media and was arrested by police shortly after.

Police forensic lab results suggest that the two pistols found in a mosque last month in the village of Iliopetra in the northeastern city of Xanthi are not linked to any criminal activity, Kathimerini understands.

Police teams in the Aegean province of İzmir detained three suspects and seized a number of assault rifles and bullets in a passenger bus on March 20.

Spanish Police have released striking pictures of a huge weapons haul seized from an organised crime group.

It includes over 10,000 assault rifles, machine guns, pistols, revolvers, and 400 shells and grenades.

The guns and ammunition were seized in January during an operation against firearms trafficking.

In this age of waxing laws and waning freedoms, a notable exception to the pattern of ever-tightening restrictions is gun prohibitions.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Defense Ministry said dozens of weapons and piles of ammunition have gone missing from a military warehouse in Belgrade.

In a statement issued on November 17, the ministry said the disappearance was noticed during a regular checkup at a garrison in the capital.

A woman was arrested in Rethymno on the island of Crete on Sunday for the illegal posession of guns and ammunition.

In a raid of the 52-year-old suspect's farm in the Milopotamos region, police said they found two pistols, 2,426 cartridges of various sizes, a sword and hunting rifles.

She was to appear before a local prosecutor.