An example is a murder of a young man in Helsingborg, who was shot to death with three shots in August 2023. The bullet used in the murder was a fully jacketed m/39B, long used for submachine gun 45 and still for pistol 88.
Svenska Dagbladet has previously reported on the phenomenon, where the defense's ammunition, among other things, was used in a murder in Malmö in 2018 and several other murder attempts.
The bullets have, according to the National Board of Forensic Medicine, also been used in several other fatal shootings, writes DN.
Kristian Malzoff, head of the National Firearms Centre, confirms to DN that seizures of military ammunition occur regularly. It often involves bullets from several decades ago, when large downsizings of units took place and a lot of ammunition was released.
We believe that it's about bullets that were donated to various defense and shooting associations in the 1990s. Somehow, it got legs and ended up in the criminal environment.
