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" The firepower uncovered in March 2005 in Sant’Anastasia, a town at the foot of Vesuvius, was
stunning. The discovery came about partly by chance, and partly by the lack of discipline of the arms
traffickers: customers and drivers started fighting on the street because they couldn’t agree on the
price. When the carabinieri arrived, they removed the interior panels of the truck parked near the
brawl, discovering one of the largest mobile depots they had ever seen. Uzis with four magazines,
seven clips, and 112 380-caliber bullets, Russian and Czech machine guns able to fire 950 shots a
minute. (Nine hundred fifty shots a minute was the firing power of American helicopters in Vietnam.)
Weapons for ripping apart tanks and entire divisions of men, not for Camorra family fights on the
slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Almost new, well-oiled, rifle numbers still intact, just in from Kraków. "

Roberto Saviano , Gomorrah


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Roberto Saviano quote : The firepower uncovered in March 2005 in Sant’Anastasia, a town at the foot of Vesuvius, was<br />stunning. The discovery came about partly by chance, and partly by the lack of discipline of the arms<br />traffickers: customers and drivers started fighting on the street because they couldn’t agree on the<br />price. When the carabinieri arrived, they removed the interior panels of the truck parked near the<br />brawl, discovering one of the largest mobile depots they had ever seen. Uzis with four magazines,<br />seven clips, and 112 380-caliber bullets, Russian and Czech machine guns able to fire 950 shots a<br />minute. (Nine hundred fifty shots a minute was the firing power of American helicopters in Vietnam.)<br />Weapons for ripping apart tanks and entire divisions of men, not for Camorra family fights on the<br />slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Almost new, well-oiled, rifle numbers still intact, just in from Kraków.